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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.

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

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.

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



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