When you want to confidently declare that we all know about our past, we can trace the entire human civilization from primitive people to our days, it is useful to keep some facts before our eyes. Those that historians simply turn a blind eye to, or dismiss idiotic explanations as annoying flies.
And it's good that they ignore them. Otherwise, they would have simply destroyed in the name of their "great historical paradigm." Riddles, on the other hand, slowly, but non-stop, file down the leg of the world historical chair.
In November 1928, a truck pulled up at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. He unloaded parts of an interesting, complex, but completely destroyed brass machine. It was a gift from a wealthy Philadelphia man, John Penn Brock.
The parts were examined, the car was assembled and the museum was stunned by the happiness that fell on him.
After being repaired, the machine began to draw complex sketches and write poetry. At the end of the last poem, he signed Ecrit par L'Automate de Maillardet - He wrote an automaton by Henri Maillardet (Francophiles, do not be offended if he misrepresented his surname).
No one had any idea where he came from or when he lived.
It was later revealed that in the 18th century, the Swiss watchmaker Henri Maillardet, known for his complex movements, lived in London. This machine was called "Drawer-Writer". Maillardet is believed to have built this extraordinary automaton around 1800 and has the largest memory of this type of machine ever built - four drawings and three poems (two in French and one in English).
He is the fact that he is the most "memorable" of those YET found, historians do not say. Apparently they hope to disassemble all other models before the public learns about them.
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The device is now in the museums of the Franklin Institute. His work can be observed four times a year on a schedule. You can plan your vacation for the next year.
Nowadays, among the hordes of electronic gadgets that are about to begin to look down on a person, there is nothing magical about a mechanical apparatus that performs a sequence of programmed actions. This is not a green man running naked on the Earth.
But it is also impossible to imagine such a mechanism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries …
What history do we have there at this time? Wars of dirt, unsanitary conditions, stench, lice, horses and a toilet on the street?
And then suddenly a dirty watchmaker from the smallest details without electricity, adequate tools, a developed network of suppliers and production, makes an apparatus with thousands of perfectly fitted, smallest details in order to write ten curls for the amusement of the public? Come on.
Any king, first of all, will order himself a clean toilet and drain, not a doll. Which, by the way, is more difficult to do.
If there was already the possibility of developing and manufacturing such precise and complex mechanisms, why was everything else done with an ax and a shovel?
This machine has a CNC on springs. This in itself is amazing, as it also works for 300 years.
In this note from the late 19th century, it is written that over the past 200-300 years, android production has reached unprecedented heights. Where are they? And tops and androids?
Aristotle and Plato talked about the androids of Daedalus who could walk, but so cool that they had to be tied up so that they would stop.
Louis the Fourteenth had a coachman, a carriage and even a lady in it. which themselves walked, drove, but at the same time were mechanical. What did Louis do with such a lady, I don't even want to guess.
There were even artificial birds, as well as chess players, musicians, etc. Well, at the end of the article hopes that the author of the draftsman-poet, Henri Mailladet, is alive and well, although our historians claim that he died in 1830 in Belgium.
He apparently, too, an android once a hundred years lasted without problems. Maybe even now for hours, somewhere he indulges. On the outskirts of civilization.