Deze video kwam ik tegen op cracked.com in dit artikel
[YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naHk-rVMCVQ&feature=player_embedded]
[YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naHk-rVMCVQ&feature=player_embedded]
Charles Babbage wordt gezien als de uitvinder van de computer (1822) maar deze poppen werden door een zwitserse horlogemaker (Pierre Jaquet-Droz) gemaakt tussen 1768 en 1774Needless to say, this sort of technology was astounding for the 1700s. The Writer alone was made out of no less than 6,000 moving pieces, and still functions to this day. Since it was programmable (in that you could change the message it wrote), it's been called one of the earliest ancestors of modern computers. Though they were obviously recovered (seeing as how we have video of them now),