1739  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Revision as of 12:09, 11 January 2009; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→
Jump to: navigation, search
The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739. Voltaire wrote that "without [...] the duck of Vaucanson, you have nothing to remind you of the glory of France." ("Sans...le canard de Vaucanson vous n'auriez rien qui fit ressouvenir de la gloire de la France.") This is often misquoted as "Without the shitting duck, we would have nothing to remind us of the glory of France."
Enlarge
The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739. Voltaire wrote that "without [...] the duck of Vaucanson, you have nothing to remind you of the glory of France." ("Sans...le canard de Vaucanson vous n'auriez rien qui fit ressouvenir de la gloire de la France.") This is often misquoted as "Without the shitting duck, we would have nothing to remind us of the glory of France."

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop

Featured:

1730 - 1731 - 1732 - 1733 - 1734 - 1735 - 1736 - 1737 - 1738 - 1739

Contents

Art and culture

Literature

Fiction

  • A Faithful Narrative of the Proceedings in a Late A air Between John Swinton and George Baker (1739)

Non-fiction

Visual art

Music

Architecture

Births

Deaths


Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "1739" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Retrieved from "http://artandpopularculture.com/1739"
Personal tools
Metas