MD3PAD 376-378

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Some design details and history about the duck and Vaucanson here:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,650977,00.html

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On 25/05/2006:

> Yes, Vaucanson actually built a duck that could excrete feces, and it 
> was
> a marvel of the day, just like the recent invention of the sandwich and
> the presentations by the hypnotist Mesmer. Doesn't the duck also make 
> an
> appearance in Norfolk's "Lempriere's Dictionary" (which I still need to
> read)?
>
> Toby
>
>> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:45:23 +1000
>> From: jbor at bigpond.com
>> Subject: Re: MD3PAD 376-378
>>
>> Armand Allegre. Get it. But Dixon's possession of the slave-driver's
>> whip is documented I think. So's the Duck's existence, though not
>> its  superpowers.
>