The incredible 200-year-old automaton

[Still Waters]

We usually think of robots as an achievement of the modern era.

But this remarkable machine is proof that the resourceful inventors of the 19th Century had the technology to create their own automata.

Not only that, its remarkable gold and diamond-studded design shows they had the imagination to create them with far more style than our functional modern versions.

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