AUTOMATA pattern of operation of the automaton "The dig閞ateur canard" (duck digeritrice) Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782): inventor of the first automatic loom has produced several elaborate automata for the delectation of the most prestigious European courts. The cross-section shows the operation of the internal mechanism that allowed the motion; and the bowels artificial allowed also carry out the functions of the natural evacuation of feces. France; 1739