Gulliver's Travels Part 3 Chapter 5

In which the curious traveller is admitted to the grand academy of Lagado, a place where inventors and scholars pursue many whimsical and absurd projects, from extracting sunshine from cucumbers to teaching the blind to distinguish colours. Amidst these endeavours, he witnesses a peculiar contrivance designed to compose books by mechanical means and discourses with various professors proposing strange methods to expedite learning and communication.