stackyFACTSWhy just look at the time when a mechanical doll can literally aggressively announce it? Fifteenth-century Korean engineers built massive plumbing-powered clocks that triggered complex wooden figures to strike massive gongs. It was basically an aggressively loud cuckoo clock powered by water pressure.
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