Tag: automata
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Pre-WWI Cuckoo Clock with Articulated Wings
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in HorologyThis is a cuckoo clock that was probably made between 1860 to 1914 in the Black Forrest in Germany (according to this). Aside from having cast bronze plates with a lyre pattern, the beautiful wooden bird that the mechanism puppets not only opens its beak but also spreads its wings! First I disassembled and cleaned…
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Thesis: The “Other” in Nineteenth-Century French Automata: Technology, Domestication, and Imperialism
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in WritingsThe “Other” in Nineteenth-Century French Automata: Technology, Domestication, and Imperialism Abstract: Automata – mechanical, self-moving representations of animals and humans – have been studied by historians mainly to account for their popularity in the European Enlightenment, where they influenced conceptions of how matter takes on life and agency in a mechanistic world. However, automata continued…
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