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[–] 18 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

Its the same inventor as this machine, referred to as the Hero of Alexandria. Largely they were complex theater puppets.

Coincidentally I ran into it reading up on automata in mythology today.

I'll add my favorite bit of ancient technology here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

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