Latin Verse Machine (The Eureka)

The Latin Verse Machine is the first known automated text generator. It was built between 1830 and 1843 by John Clark, a printer from Bridgwater in England who also invented the airbed. Clark exhibited the machine at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly in 1845.

The Latin Verse Machine automated a verse-generation system from 1677.

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
John Clark’s Latin Verse Machine: 19th Century Computational Creativity	Mike Sharples	2023
Popular Prosody: Spectacle and the Politics of Victorian Versification	Jason David Hall	2007
Story machines: how computers have become creative writers	Mike Sharples, Rafael Pérez y Pérez	2022
The General History and Description of a Machine for Composing Hexameter Latin Verses	John Clark	1848

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