Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Photos and drawings of life-size Trumpeter automaton from 1810

Check out this fascinating trumpet-playing automaton that is featured on Cyberneticzoo.com. This life size clockwork-driven trumpeter was build by a German man named Freidrich Kaufmann in 1810.

Check out more photos, drawings and history in the full blog article located here.



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Friday, January 03, 2014

The repair and restoration repair of an automaton bear by Brittany Cox

Check out this fascinating blog entry in which we see the various steps that Brittany Cox took to repair and restore a clockwork automaton bear. I would never have expected Tyvek to be involved!

Here is where you can read the post titled Sir Kingslydale the Automaton Bear.

[ Thanks Kim and Brittany! ]



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