1400 B.C.
The Babylonian develop the clepydra (water clock). Using a syphon principle, it automatically recycled itself, and thus ws one of the earliest ancestors of industrial robot devices.
270 B.C.
An ancient Greek engineer named Ctesibus made organs and water clocks with movable figures.
8 A.D.
Pygmalion myth first published by Ovid (b.43 BC). When Pygmalion falls in love with the beautiful statu he has created, it comes to life in answer to his prayers to Venus.
1525 A.D.
Hans Bullmann of Nuremberg creates the first autiomation that fully reproduces a human form.
1580 A.D.
Rabbi Judah Low ben Bezulel of Prague inspires the best-known version of the Jewish folktale of the Golem, a creature brought to life from clay.
1617 A.D.
Scotland's John Napier introduces a system of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting. The system, which is called "Napier's Bones," was mechanical numbering device made of horn, bone, or ivory.
1623 A.D.
Germany's Wilhelm chickard invents the first workable mechanical calculating machine. It's able to add and subtract automatically and multiply and divide semi-automatically.
1727 A.D.
First appearance of the word "android" in English, in reference to the German philosopher and alchemist Albertus Magnus'(c.1200-1280) attempts to create an artificial man.
1737 A.D.
French inventor Jacques Vaucanson creates several automation, including a life-size musician android that played 11 flute melodies, and hs famous "duck".
1760 A.D.
Cerman inventor Friedrich von Knauss builds an automation figurine that holds a pen and can write a passage of 17 words.
1772-75 A.D.
In Geneva Pierre Jacquet-Droz creates lifelike automations modeled as writers, artists, and musicians.
1780 A.D.
American Benjamin Franklin discovers lightening is electricity.
1804 A.D.
Frenchman Joseph-Marie Jacquared completeds his fully automated loom, which is programmed by punched cards.
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