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https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/09/Amazing-Desk-from-the-1700s-Has-Secret-Compartments-inside-Its-Secret-Compartments/[youtube UpSZ6kCl7Ic](Video Link)Renegadecow makes... ...deo Link)Renegadecow makes amazing My Little Pony automata . If you're going to have an artistic specialty, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/11/Sewing-Rarity-Automaton/[vimeo 16128282](Video Link)Henri Maillardet (b. 1... ...)Henri Maillardet (b. 1745) was a master maker of automata . This caterpillar, which is less than three inche...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/08/Caterpillar-Automaton-c-1820/[youtube IVxhK3Hvhig](Video Link)Yeeehaw! Season 3 of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic premiered last night! I haven't seen it yet. Have you? Is it as awesome as we've been told?In the meantime, enjoy this perfectly c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/11/Fluttershy-Bird-Choir-Music-Box-Automaton/[youtube Ycyj76VPOtc](Video Link)He walks and moves his arms, head and mouth. This marvelous mechanical monk was probably made in Spain or Germany in the 1560s, but he's still fully functional:Driven by a key-wound sprin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/02/Sixteenth-Century-Automaton-of-a-Monk/In his own time, Manfredo Settala (1600-1680) of Milan was called the Archimedes of his age. He had an insatiable scientific curiosity and became, among other accomplishments, a famed naturalist and maker of scientific i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/15/17th-Century-Automaton/As the full title says, these are not your grandmother's cuckoo clocks! Justin Miller has been fascinated with cuckoo clocks of the Black Forest since he was a child. He tells us about the origins of clocks with automato...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/20/the-decapitating-rat-eating-clocks-of-the-black-forest/(Video Link) Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, was presented with this mechanical marvel in 1785. It's a machine in the form of a lady playing a dulcimer. The lady isn't just decorative, but an essential part o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/12/marie-antoinettes-automaton-dulcimer-player/(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...
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