just gonna have to start printing pieces of the ledger and storing them in warehouses

and then tie them to some sort of categorization system

interesting... Charles dickens wrote a peice in 1837 which was a bit like westworld

with printed cards

a theme park where people fight automatons

LOL sick. i would so do that

gotta bring back card catalogs

I grew up in a small town where there is a big museum... which holds an automaton from 1772 ...and as a kid I really did not appreciate how amazing it was

sounds hella fun xD

whoa.... i would like to see that!

this was made in 1772 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0LMe5pi7ME

I want to open a theme park of old and semi-old computers that can do things if you know how to operate them fully. 😃

they muted it, but it has sound too

all pure silver leaves

hah wow.... seems like itd take some engineering genius to pull that off back then.... like passive mechanics or something... maybe some wind up crank?

yeah its wound up

thats classy too lol

pretty cool 👍

old pinball/gaming machines were hella complex

for their time

all mechanical

Mark Twain saw it on tour and wrote about it

MT was way before his time

had like one of the first telephones

and even then he wrote about it in 1867 - so even to him he must have been like, wow they made this back in 1772 😛

Has anyone heard of the turk?

LOL yeah for sure @wacka

“I watched the Silver Swan, which had a living grace about his movement and a living intelligence in his eyes, watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jeweller’s shop.”

It's the most interesting mechanical marvel I've heard of

just think, in 4 years after that was made the world changed forever

FREEDOM

yeah its older than the US

which we also invented ;P

you might have invented it

Automatons are really impressive. I like the one of the writing boy which can be programmed to write whatever you want it to

but we perfected it

fair enough 😃

😃

Also the one of the Japanese archer because it actually shoots a miniature arrow which is hilarious to me

It's a completely wooden robot, that plays chess

It beat people like Churchill and Napoleon Bonaparte