(Video Link) Sometimes, tapping your fingers in bored frustration doesn't really seem to make time more forward at a faster clip. This hand-cranked automaton by Etsy seller automatonman will probably help. Link -via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/13/tapping-fingers-automaton/(Video Link) This is a truly amazing work of art and machinery. Built in Geneva by Rochat around the year 1820, these two pistol-like objects are actually tiny music boxes. When the user pulls the trigger, a tiny, rea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/music-box-automata-pistols/For all of you who've experienced storm in a teacu... ...or us Yanks), you have John Lumbus' sympathy. The automata specialist has created a clever kinetic object ou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/06/30/storm-in-a-teacup-by-john-lumbus/(YouTube Link) Sculptor Keith Newstead made this lovely brass pegasus automaton. He writes of its metal work: As they had been cut from 1mm brass they were quite heavy and I was worried that the whole brass horse...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/01/brass-pegasus-automaton/(YouTube Link) YouTube user Mechanical Sculptor created this mechanically exploding and retracting picture frame. His channel is filled with videos of similar works. via Make | YouTube Channel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/03/explodingreassembling-picture-frame/The Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey has a... ...hines & Living Dolls", featuring over 700 antique automata , including quite a few fancily-dressed mechanical... ...air done up in the style of French Royalty. These automata were a post-French-revolution joke on the former...
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