Jaquet Droz The Writer Automaton From 1774 In Action: Inspired Hugo Movie

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  • See more @ www.ablogtoread.com. One of three surviving automata from the 18th century built by Jaquet Droz, this is "The Writer" and is the most famous machine. The Writer was the inspiration for the movie Hugo, and still works today. The complex clockwork mechanism brings the "android" to life as it is able to write phrases. Other Jaquet Droz androids from the 18th century could draw and play a piano.

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  • @ablogtowatch
    @ablogtowatch  12 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    The automaton works fine without him. He was just testing/calibrating it as it was about to be shot for some video. I thought it was interesting to see the worker operate it. There are only a handful of people in the world that know how to maintain these machines.

    • @aliena28898
      @aliena28898 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for the clarification!

    • @magalipiendel411
      @magalipiendel411 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So why didn't you simply and clearly write this in your introduction?

    • @amristar736
      @amristar736 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The operator is annoying

    • @HELENGodLoves
      @HELENGodLoves ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for recording this✌️ What did it write?? 🤗❤️🙏

  • @frustratedbaboon6486
    @frustratedbaboon6486 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    If you go back to those days of innovation this was a dream to make a human machine that is autonomous.

  • @korbindallis
    @korbindallis 12 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    for a 1774 work of engineering I'm impressed

  • @OriruBastard
    @OriruBastard 9 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    It is pretty awesome that someone had time and effort to create automaton like that.
    In fact it's pretty amazing.

    • @VentiVonOsterreich
      @VentiVonOsterreich 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What makes this better is that it was made between 1768 and 1774, just three years after Adolf Frederick died of eating 14 servings of semla.

    • @OriruBastard
      @OriruBastard 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Girom Christian Calica
      Must've been diabetic.

    • @VentiVonOsterreich
      @VentiVonOsterreich 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oriru Bastard He ate a lot of dinner and 14 servings of semla. He isn't diabetic, he got digestion problems (probably his gut ruptured) as a result of his eating contest of death and died because of it.

    • @OriruBastard
      @OriruBastard 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Girom Christian Calica
      That sexplains.

    • @VentiVonOsterreich
      @VentiVonOsterreich 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oriru Bastard
      Remember, diabetes is genetic.

  • @robtrahan
    @robtrahan 12 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    dude this was made in 1774. each piece of that mechanism was made by hand. he didn't make it using a computer or some sort of machining system. no one today could do what this guy did with the resources he had available to him.

    • @professorjim6874
      @professorjim6874 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Not to dispute the amazing skill it took to create this masterpiece and the others he made, but actually the first machine tools were on their way into being around that time. True metal cutting lathes were invented mid 1700's so the cams he made and shaft they rode on were probably turned to size first but the cam surfaces were absolutely filed into shape by hand. Milling machines didn't come about until after 1800 so much was done by hand with files.

  • @PaulTaylor1
    @PaulTaylor1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Love it, and there's something so charming about the way he dips his quill into the ink-well.

  • @degetzelus
    @degetzelus 11 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    R U kidding me???!!!! This is brilliant engineering even for 2012! :))) it is fascinating, I'm absolutely speechless.

  • @EvilWhiteMale
    @EvilWhiteMale 12 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Amazing that these were built so long ago. Seems we should be vacationing on Mars by now.

    • @jeanrossow5807
      @jeanrossow5807 ปีที่แล้ว

      Talvez estivéssemos se o mundo todo fosse uma só nação, mas nossa tecnologia só é desenvolvida em momentos de grandes necessidades (disputas comerciais, guerras, pandemias, etc). Nossa tecnologia não se desenvolve pra sempre ficar melhor, mas só o suficiente para aquele momento de necessidade. Tanto que usamos motor a combustão até hoje, mais de um século depois dele ter sido inventado, porque é mais barato. Nada de carros voadores...

    • @sahrmalik521
      @sahrmalik521 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because greed is winning over the want for a better humanity

    • @aelahn
      @aelahn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jeanrossow5807 a europa naquela época era mais dividida e hoje em dia existe a união européia... você tá bem?

  • @mayzor7
    @mayzor7 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    😮 Absolutely incredible

  • @douro20
    @douro20 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It's quite amazing that this machine, Pierre Jaquet-Droz' "L'écrivain", could had been built at that time.

  • @cheetosan
    @cheetosan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Why does he keep prodding it? Leave the poor bot alone, he's trying his best. He's 250 years old for pity's sake!

    • @LindaLaurenPsychicMedium
      @LindaLaurenPsychicMedium 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      cheeto He’s adjusting it so that it runs properly. If these are not used in this way often, they won’t work anymore. So he’s basically doing his job. Otherwise we wouldn’t see at work today.

    • @anelisamorgan8590
      @anelisamorgan8590 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      When he snapped his fingers at the person recording.. rude😒

    • @Kryptolistic
      @Kryptolistic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      over sensitive prune, these new era kids are so soft everything hurts their feelings and are always forcing in their ideals to their so called life goal of giving empathy to everything in existence when most of the times is ridiculously unnecessary ffs...
      Like the rest said the guy is doing his job, the Automata needs calibrating and service often to keep it working properly.

    • @eric1012wi
      @eric1012wi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anelisamorgan8590 ❄

    • @eric1012wi
      @eric1012wi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @KRhetor
    @KRhetor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    It says, "EPSTEIN DIDN'T KILL HIMSELF"

  • @mitch19636
    @mitch19636 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing.

  • @beating4you
    @beating4you 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    And of course, GREAT JOB !!!! Quien lo haya creado, debió de costarle mucho hacerlo! es super fabuloso :P! Saludos desde Venezuela!

  • @Trickxareforkids
    @Trickxareforkids 12 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Are you serious? This was built in 1774! Do you think you, or anyone you know, could figure out how to make one these today in 2012? I'm sure it would be a struggle even with our vast internet resources.

  • @ablogtowatch
    @ablogtowatch  12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yea, it is super cool.

  • @erikpowers9668
    @erikpowers9668 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So we just gonna forget about the book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. You know the book that the movie is actually inspired from. While the writer did influence Brian Selznick, his book existed many years before a movie version of his creation was even thought of.
    Also, while the writer is an automata is was not even the biggest inspiration for the design from the book or the movie, the credit for that goes to Henri Maillardet who built a automation that could both draw and write and has a cage like body as seen in both the book and movie.
    Please when researching amazing things from history spend a little more time.

    • @ja9970
      @ja9970 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ayo thats my favourite movie

  • @SuccubusLover69
    @SuccubusLover69 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing

  • @Linkage1992
    @Linkage1992 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Creepy but awesome!

  • @ReplicateReality
    @ReplicateReality ปีที่แล้ว

    IT WAS A BOOK FIRST, a beautiful one too

  • @richardlengyel4550
    @richardlengyel4550 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "WOW...."😱

  • @cuatropolis2881
    @cuatropolis2881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thats early robotics and programming

  • @GG-lv3xd
    @GG-lv3xd 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    you can get a doll like this its called Suzy Scribbles from WOW worlds of wonder and she will draw pictures for you while sitting

  • @michaelalcantara3608
    @michaelalcantara3608 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy fucking shit

  • @ivanvasquez1385
    @ivanvasquez1385 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first programers.

  • @joseph2137
    @joseph2137 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That robot/doll looks creepy...

  • @tlk0216
    @tlk0216 ปีที่แล้ว

    some are 1 thousand years behind

  • @beating4you
    @beating4you 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    They are the robots that in the year 3000 kill everybody :O

  • @Lara__
    @Lara__ 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    So what does the message say?

    • @KRhetor
      @KRhetor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Epstein didn't kill himself"

  • @diegolopez3519
    @diegolopez3519 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dejen la cámara quieta

  • @yakhoubsurya2657
    @yakhoubsurya2657 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    world first CNC...

  • @VentiVonOsterreich
    @VentiVonOsterreich 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Terminator 1700s

  • @mkaiser7996
    @mkaiser7996 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent! But HELP! I still fail to understand how BOY knows what to write.

    • @samwilde8311
      @samwilde8311 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      See the big disk at his lower back? and the shaft where his spine should be? The disc shifts the shaft up and down, and depending on where the shaft is located, that shaft tells that arm what to do as it spins. The disc controls which letter the shaft should shift to based on those big teeth looking things

  • @bilbo_gamers6417
    @bilbo_gamers6417 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SCP-914?

  • @ivanperezmargarito5519
    @ivanperezmargarito5519 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "destruiré a la humanidad"

  • @7th.Element
    @7th.Element 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    imagine he write nigga.

  • @dollayx8
    @dollayx8 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i can see its not only work by machine its also has a living spirit inside it

    • @ayubestica1564
      @ayubestica1564 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How come?

    • @dollayx8
      @dollayx8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ayubestica1564 it has an authenctic expression

    • @ayubestica1564
      @ayubestica1564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dollayx8 you were joking right?

    • @dollayx8
      @dollayx8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ayubestica1564 no, i can see and feel it

    • @ayubestica1564
      @ayubestica1564 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dollayx8 so how's the spirit looked like?

  • @MindlessMeatPuppet
    @MindlessMeatPuppet 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Inspiration for the movie Hugo?
    More like inspiration for the movie CHUCKY!

  • @oriddercastrouni
    @oriddercastrouni 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    me da miedo esa cabeza, es un esperpentor

  • @tlk0216
    @tlk0216 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    did africa ever produce such such a marvel even centuries thereafter?

  • @stonelaker4604
    @stonelaker4604 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yes shut off the background noise

  • @EvilWhiteMale
    @EvilWhiteMale 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Go ahead and build a better one then.

  • @chantan5211
    @chantan5211 ปีที่แล้ว

    🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦👑👑👑👑👑👑❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @MrocznyTechnik
    @MrocznyTechnik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A great lesson of respect for our predecessors. What wanna-be engineers can do now? use arduino for blinking LED?

    • @vdemongod
      @vdemongod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We, engineers, work hard to make that LED blink.

    • @IlFerroviere
      @IlFerroviere 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The fact is that the very small mechanical engineering is almost useless now. There is no need of something ONLY mechanical, the last only mechanical small products ever made were mechanical calculators and typewriters.
      If you're interested in this mechanics nowadays you can only make watches...

  • @c2sartinkprinthub757
    @c2sartinkprinthub757 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    just stumble this and what you know that doll can write in French?

  • @ricochet188
    @ricochet188 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Someone needs to learn how to hold a camera.

  • @dan-ho1zz
    @dan-ho1zz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    He’s so nasty to the camera guy lol

  • @marcushcg9990
    @marcushcg9990 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ami los autómatas me dan miedo

  • @ArmageddonAfterparty
    @ArmageddonAfterparty 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This vid must have the most annoying audio ever,
    that in itself is worth mentioning.
    The automaton itself is an amazing feat imho.
    Did I say the audio makes me want to die? O.o

  • @sleeplessengineer1450
    @sleeplessengineer1450 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing automaton, but absolutely terrible camerawork. You couldn't have shaken the camera more when showing the mechanism, also didn't film the mechanism enough.

  • @MattHawes
    @MattHawes 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A machine created in 1774 is still working, with little prodding, and you call it a failure? LOL! Let's see you create something like that today, much less two centuries ago. And it is not an android, C. Ronaldo, failed or otherwise. Androids are not robots, which is closer to what an automaton is. Your two cents are worthless.

    • @billwilliams3660
      @billwilliams3660 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      An android is a robot in the shape of a human. So I guess it is an android.

  • @kussa
    @kussa 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Stop forcing the fucking mechanism!!!! It's 250 years old!!!!

  • @ntahapapa01
    @ntahapapa01 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    amazing but rather annoying to see the man touching this and that. the little guy is from 1774. let him do his job & don't expect him to have COSC!

  • @Thefragdude
    @Thefragdude 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    hate to say this,but this is hardly fascinating.the guy was pushing the base of the paper holder constantly and it seems to need to be constantly adjusted to write hardly a few alphabets.i dont know what the fuss is about put besides from the cool looking gears, this is just a FAILED android .just my 2 cents

    • @EnderTheDoggu
      @EnderTheDoggu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dude...this was made hundreds of years ago, aren't you somewhat amazed that machinery like this existed hundreds of years ago that can compare itself to the modern world's technology?
      Sorry for bad grammar. English isn't my first language

    • @professorjim6874
      @professorjim6874 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      watch the BBC video made about this. A clockmaker made it in 1774. The letters are interchangeable so you can write anything. Yes it is fascinating.

    • @ahmedelsayed3133
      @ahmedelsayed3133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The mechanical machine probably has not been used for a very long time, and it is still working. It may be not impressive to you, but for most of us, it is quite impressive.