‘The Writer’ Automaton: an 18th-century programmable computer?
Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790) was a Swiss-born watchmaker of the late eighteenth century. He lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed and built animated dolls, or automata, to help his firm sell watches and mechanical birds. Some consider these devices to be the oldest examples of the computer. From the UK BBC program Mechanical […]
Haunting reminder of millions of lives lost in war as artists stencil 9,000 bodies onto Normandy beach to mark Peace Day
By Aaron Sharp from dailymail.co.uk: ~ British led project covered the famous coastline in poignant silhouettes ~ A team of 500 artists and volunteers contributed the moving installation ~ The ‘fallen’ were left to be washed away by the tide at the end of the day A pair of British artists have created this stunning […]