[from AIR 15:5]: Solution: The next tune it will play is the French folk song Frere Jacques.
Tag: machine
Industrial palaces are people, too [animation]
Henning Lederer made this animated version of Fritz Kahn‘s 1927 poster Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] [vimeo]6505158[/vimeo] (HT Diana Issidorides) BONUS (unrelated, probably): Man forced to eat his beard, he says: (Thanks to investigator Dan Gallo for bringing this to our attention.)
How to (try to) stop a machine
This video documents an unplanned experiment in engineering and human nature. Workers at a construction site contemplate how to arrest a machine that will not stop spinning. Then more workers join in the contemplation… (Thanks to investigator Ralph Enders for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: Researchers at the University of Minnesota physics department write, […]
Most lyrically-named machine: Crypto Peerless Mixer
You’ll not find a more lyrically-named machine than the Crypto Peerless Mixer. Here’s a video of one in action. Note the laconic narration. And you’ll—probably—not find a Crypto Peerless Mixer more storied than one being disposed of by, or behalf of, the British government. Here is one such: (Thanks to @IanVisits for bringing the disposal […]