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Show A Aiovel Automaton. A Loudon correspondent of the Boston Bos-ton Commonwealth writes : "On Saturday Sat-urday last an exhibition of quite a novel charac.er was opened here. It is an exhibition of a talking machine, which by mechanical appliances, is made to give forth utterances resembling resem-bling tho-e of a human beim;. It is the invention of Professor Faber, of A ienna, and has been constructed aud patented by him, and is certainly a wonderful specimen of human ingenuity. ingenu-ity. The machine illustrates a much-neglected much-neglected scienceof acoustics. Moreover, More-over, it is highly interesting as showing how far ingenuity may to. The machine ma-chine has a mouth, with tonr-nn anrl I lips, which are set in motion by a mechanical me-chanical apparatus which sets free a portion of air from a large bellows, and so controls it as to produce the sound required. It pronounced with great clearness every letter of the alphabet, many words and a few sentences perfectly per-fectly ; not merely set words, but aDv words the audience chose to name. Tt also laughed, and uttered other cries expressive of human pas-ions, to the a-tonis'hment, ai parently, of everv one who heard it." |