Description
The Digesting Duck was an automaton duck that could quack, flap its wings and gave the impression of having the digestive ability to drink wine and eat kernels of grain and turn the food into excrement.
The digestion sadly was only an illusion: The food was fed into the beak, only to be collected in an inner container. The excrement in turn were pushed out of another container in the belly of the duck.
The duck was allegedly made up of more than 4000 pieces.
A reproduction of Vaucansons duck can be seen at The Museum of Automatons in Grenoble, France.
