“The Writer” is a clockwork automaton created in the 1770s by the Swiss-born famous watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz. The mechanism, designed to write words and sentences of up to 40 characters, still ...

Rhett Roxl is a freelance content writer and an avid video gamer. When he's not writing, or playing video games, or writing about video games, he makes and plays music at local bars. The gameplay ...

In my novel, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley, set in the mid-18th century, Zachary’s father makes remarkable automata, simulations of people and animals driven by clockwork and programmed by ...

David McGuire is a TV and Movie freelance writer for Collider based in Los Angeles. He is a screenwriter and, most recently, assisted in the development of a kids Netflix series. Give him a wave on ...