The Eureka
The Eureka, also known as the Latin Verse Machine, is a mid-19th century machine for generating Latin verses, created and exhibited by the Quaker inventor John Clark (inventor), John Clark of Bridgwater. Clark, a cousin of Cyrus Clark, was born at Greinton in Somerset in 1785 and moved to Bridgwater in 1809. There he was first a grocer and later a printer. In 1830 he started work on the Eureka and was able to exhibit it in 1845 in the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, Picadilly. Visitors, for the admission price of one shilling, could see a machine that resembled a ‘small bureau bookcase’, with six narrow windows in the front. As it prepared each new verse, the machine would play the God save the queen, National Anthem, becoming silent after about a minute, when the verse was complete. Verse production The verses created by the Eureka were gloomy and oracular Hexameter, hexameters, created to a single format, which allowed for many combinations, all Metre (poetry), metrically so ...
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The Eureka Machine 1845
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