The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of a duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson and unveiled on 30 May 1764 in France...

Jean-Benjamin de La Borde. Voltaire wrote in 1741 that "sans la voix de la le Maure, & le canard de Vaucanson, vous n'auriez rien qui fit ressouvenir de la gloire...

accidentally created false abductive reasoning still in use today. Jacques de Vaucanson was a famous inventor who created an automaton that was a mechanical...

Dixon, a fictionalized version of the Digesting Duck created by Jacques de Vaucanson Ping, domesticated duck who lives on the Yangtze River in China; his...

entirely averse to keeping him in the dark about certain matters. Hyacinthe de Cavallere (aka the Dungeon Master or "the Keeper") is a greedy, yet lovable...