Blaise Bontems (15 March 1814
Le Ménil
Le Ménil () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
It is sometimes called ''Le Ménil-Thillot'' to distinguish it from nearby Ménil-de-Senones.
Inhabitants are called Guédons.
Geography
The commune is pos ...
- 1893) was a noted Parisian specialist in the manufacture of
automaton
An automaton (; plural: automata or automatons) is a relatively self-operating machine, or control mechanism designed to automatically follow a sequence of operations, or respond to predetermined instructions.Automaton – Definition and More ...
singing birds and the first of a dynasty of automaton manufacturers, which included his son Charles Jules and his grandson Lucien. Bontems' birds were famous for the realism of their song.
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Automaton
An automaton (; plural: automata or automatons) is a relatively self-operating machine, or control mechanism designed to automatically follow a sequence of operations, or respond to predetermined instructions.Automaton – Definition and More ...
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Singing bird box
A singing bird box (''boîte à oiseau chanteur'' in French) is a box, usually rectangular-shaped, which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird concealed below an oval lid and activated by means of an operating lever.
Its origins are ...
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1814 births
1893 deaths
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