Arthur Ganson‘s ballet for machinery and a chair: (Thanks to investigator Vaughn Tan for bringing this to our attention.)
Tag: automaton
Shoe-related automaton: The Shock of the New
Another clever automaton by Keith Newstead, this one fully fleshed out, about shoemaking, and about other things:
Mechanical high security, on paper: The paper safe
In an age when security — especially security on paper — is all the rage, Rob Ives designed this all-paper working safe:
Tipu’s Tiger
Maggie Koerth-Baker, Boing-Boing’s ace science observer, is doing a series of essays about “My Favorite Museum Exhibit”. The Bishop of Durham’s rectum, on which we have spent an inordinate amount of time and space, because it has a curious back story, is there. (Well, actually, the Bishop’s bottom, what’s left of it, is in the […]
Sketchy Automaton: A slippery customer
A nice sketchy prototype of a clever paper automaton storytelling machine by Keith Newstead, with a twist ending:
Rat-eating-soldier automaton
Video (with dull commentary) of a nineteenth century automaton of a French soldier eating rats every five minutes or so:
How he engineered the tug-of-war gizmo
Tom Haney explains, in words and pictures, how he engineered his two-part (three if you count the connective rope) tug-of-war-automaton: The mechanism for this piece is mostly in the base of the woman. However, the piece does not operate unless the 2 bases are at the proper distance from each other. The woman does not […]
Rob Ives’ Swine Flew
Rob Ives‘ automaton called “Swine Flew”:
Chris Eckert’s waiting machine
A waiting machine, made by Chris Eckert:
Tony and Dali and an elephant
Mechanical engineering, history, art, and semiotics all come together or fall apart in this automaton called “The Temptation of St. Anthony, After Salvadore Dali“: