This was the inspiration for a web service by Amazon called the Mechanical Turk named after this guy.

We decided to use the Mechanical Turk for exactly what it was meant for, which is making money.

Like a Turk.

So the last Mechanical Turk project I'm going to talk to you about is called Bicycle Built for 2000.

After previewing it and confirming it's what you submitted, you could submit it into the Mechanical Turk with no other context.

So we took a hundred dollar bill and divided it into 10,000 teeny pieces, and we fed those into the Mechanical Turk.

So I thought this was an interesting clip to divide into 16 pieces and feed into the Mechanical Turk with a drawing tool.

Completely mechanical. This whole machine is mechanical.

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So, mechanical engineering!

You have mechanical systems.

Patented clockwork mechanical man.

Ours is a mechanical age.

Wait, digital or old mechanical?

It's like a mechanical trick.

It's completely mechanical, again, a printer.

See, it's not a mechanical thing.

And luckily, there's a website for that, called Mechanical Turk, which is a website where you can post tasks that you don't want to do yourself, such as Please summarize this text for me in six words.

They're embedded with mechanical electrical devices, sensors.

So there's mechanical adding machines for instance.

It doesn't matter if your computer's mechanical,

So you think of alternative mechanical parts.

Mechanical power took the place of manual labor.

The downtime is caused by a mechanical problem.

Tom is studying to be a mechanical engineer.

That's wrong because the theory is quantum mechanical.

Now, of course, Babbage's machine was entirely mechanical.

lots of servo hacking, lots of mechanical stuff.

What that's actually doing is, it's sending pulses which are turning a mechanical, a little mechanical arm inside of a relay system, and people built computers out of those electro mechanical relays.

And we took all of those individual pieces, and we fed them into another Turk request.

I was zoomed into this posh, international school in Madrid , where I was the only Turk.

Could you lend me a few mechanical pencil leads?

And it's walked away I mean, it's that mechanical.

Because I don't want this to be completely mechanical.

This is Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen's mechanical chess playing machine.

And if we now beat up and down (Mechanical sounds)

The point is that education is not a mechanical system.

So my uncle is only dealing with a mechanical interface.

Is it simply the byproduct of a crude mechanical action?

He taught me all sorts of things about mechanical things.

And even before that people had looked at building mechanical systems.

Syrup is injected by sanitary mechanical process. Carbonated water is added.

As an example, let's take a beautiful, old, mechanical grandfather clock.

It's not a mechanical object, not a pump, not an airbag.