Androids the JaquetDroz automatons Author:Roland Carrera, Dominique Loiseau, Olivier Roux Black cloth hardcover with pictorial pastedown on front board, gilt titles. 93 pages illustrated with photos throughout. No jacket as issued. The three most beautiful androids ever created since 1909, and which still exist today, are exhibited in the Museum of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Built from 1770 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis, an... more »d several skilful workers, the androids were showed to the audience from La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1774. Some authors explain that this automaton is a forerunner of the computers. This statement is certainly justified since the machine is composed of a "program" and a "memory". The "program"is a wheel which makes it possible to choose the words the android is to write, and the "memory", which is made up by a set of cams, make it possible to form the letters.« less