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Jean Salomon de Caus was born in 1576 in Dieppe, Normandy, into a Protestant family. The whole family moved to England, where Salomon obtained his education.
Salomon de Caus was notably known for his invention of the Water-Driven Sawn. The Water-Driven Sawn was an automaton that had singing birds.
The mechanism is made entirely of wood, driven by two waterwheels put in motion by jets of water from two pipes that emerge from a common reservoir.
Salomon published the book Les Raisons Des Forces Mouvantes Avec Diverses Machines Tant Utiles Que Plaisantes, translated to English as “The Reasons for Moving Forces with Various Machines as Useful as Pleasant” in 1615.