Speaking of the #Hermitage, the Peacock Clock is one of the most extraordinary surviving 18th‑century #automata. Created in the late 1770s by James Cox, it was bought by Prince Grigory Potemkin for Catherine the Great, shipped to Russia in pieces, and reassembled there.
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@globalmuseum These devices have complex systems of cams.
There is one that can write a user-defined message. It has the font on a stack of cams that seeks up and down to select the right letter. There is a message cam with both letters and control codes (newline, space, and stop.)