Later on mechanical birds became a popular home accessory. Originally, those birds were used for training pet canaries to sing. Jaquet Droz sons created two more distinguished automata - "The Musician" and "The Draughtsman".Īnother type of automata was quite popular in Europe in the 18 th - 19 th centuries - mechanical singing birds in cages with winded mechanisms. It consisted of 600 details and was able to write a text of 40 letters or symbols long on the paper. The automaton was recognized as unique for that time. In 1775, the father Droz created "The Writer". Swiss watchmakers, father and son Droz (Jaquet Droz) from La Chaux-de-Fonds inscribed another important page in the history of creating automata. The Flute Man by Vaucanson is considered the first successful attempt of creating a human being imitation. At the same time, it imitated human being movements - its fingers move along the flute blowholes, its mouth breathed out air, its lips and roof of the mouth moved realistically. The automaton was a person-size doll, which was able to perform 12 tunes. However, the first automaton created by the famous master, Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782), "The Flute Player" was created and demonstrated in Paris in 1738. Some history records evidence that it was Ivan the Terrible in Russia who could have owned the first automaton, since the foreign ambassadors wrote in their letters home, "mechanical automat-servant (an iron man)" served him while he was dinning. In the Kolomensky Palace, Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich had a pair of mechanical lions, standing at the throne both sides they were able of copying some movements of live animals. Automatons emerged quite long ago in Russia, as well. Legends say about walking statues of Daedalus in Athens and a flying wooden pigeon owned by Archytas from Tarentum. It is considered that first automatons appeared in the ancient times. Automaton is a winded mechanism encased in a doll representing a person, an animal or a bird that moves to the music and does actions that are typical for its line of conduct.
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