Sentence examples for mechanical duck that from inspiring English sources

More famous still was his mechanical duck that ate its food and then defecated.

Packed in with it are the diaries of Henry Brandling, which recount his journey to the Black Forest, the centre of German clock-making, to meet a master craftsman capable of building a mechanical duck that can eat and excrete.

He soon topped himself with a mechanical duck that "ate food out of the exhibitor's hand, swallowed it, digested it and excreted it" before the likes of Louis XV and Voltaire.

A duck that has decided to call itself a VC.

He did not volunteer to be a calming influence in this confusion, and certainly did not want to be the mechanical duck in the carnival shooting gallery that this election has become.

Not that the issue came up very frequently before the 18th century, when some ingenious craftsmen began to produce automatons of varying degrees of complexity, ranging from a mechanical duck to a chess-playing Turk that, in an apparent early demonstration of artificial intelligence, defeated all challengers.

The mechanical duck of 1741 was kept at an estate 14 miles from Paris.

Henry drew a spark of life from the boy by showing him Jacques de Vaucanson's 1739 design for a mechanical duck.

Stick with the duck that shoots foam balls.

"I'm a strange duck, that's for sure".

I'm going to duck that one.