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

there was another robot... that most footage was lost and I think it burnt in a fire or something

cant remember its name... like ernie or something

eric that was it

Yeah, that's the turk

this might sound weird

A guy rebuilt it

but old videos of automatons scare the shit out of me

It's still working

like clowns

or some shit

but im not scared of clowns

And it beat agrandmaster

nah this was a robot that stood up

its like a soulless being

oh I see I thought you were talking to me 😛

A magic shop guy rebuilt the turk, and it beat a grandmaster

There was a story where a guy tried to cheat, and the robot knocked off all the pieces from the board

It's really interesting