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4 unusual facts about Digesting Duck


Digesting Duck

A replica of Vaucanson's mechanical duck, created by Ian Huynh, was part of the collection of the (now defunct) Grenoble Automata Museum.

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The duck is used as the symbol for the software company Automatic Duck, Inc.

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In 2006, Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye introduced the world to his "Cloaca Machine", a mechanical art work that actually digests food and turns it into excrement, finally fulfilling Vaucanson's wish for a working digestive automation.

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The Duck is featured in Lavie Tidhar's The Bookman, in the Egyptian Hall, alongside the Turk.



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