Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Life Size Automaton Card Distributor. Made 1910 in Paris. Using a vacuum pump powered by an early electric motor to lift a card from the top of a stack. Made by Jouet et Automates Francais (J. A. F.) to exploit the newly invented electric motor power that subsumed Clockwork. Usually dressed in a bellboy uniform there is another example in The National Museum of Monaco.
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Life Size Automaton Card Distributor. Made 1910 in Paris. Using a vacuum pump powered by an early electric motor to lift a card from the top of a stack. Made by Jouet et Automates Francais (J. A. F.) to exploit the newly invented electric motor power that subsumed Clockwork. Usually dressed in a bellboy uniform there is another example in The National Museum of Monaco.
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