Jacques de Vaucanson , Thus Vaucanson devoted himself to his first android The Flute Player, that he finished in 1737, and demonstrated before the French Academie in April, 1738. Later in 1738 he opened an exhibition to the public first at the fair of Saint-Germain, then in the reception room of the Hotel de Longueville in Paris, in which presented initially only The Flute Player, but in the end of the year added two other automata, which we will examine later. In spite of an expensive admission ticket (3 livres, a week's salary for many workers), the exhibition was a triumph. When the visitors were less numerous, Vaucanson started a triumphant wide tour through France, and then in Italy and England.