Rodama: a blog of 18th-century & Revolutionary France

Here is Wolfgang von Kempelen's  famous chess-playing automaton, the Turk. There is loads and loads written on it. This account of th...

Here is another marvellous  automaton! Video, made to accompany the Metropolitan Museum exhibition of 2012-13, showing the Dulcimer ...

An 18th-century automaton reborn This beautiful, if slightly disturbing creation, is a modern replica, made in 1998 by automaton artist a...