Amazing Automata

Verdu, Spain

Museu del Joguet i Autòmats de Verdú

Amazing old toys and automats

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

The Corpus Clock & Chronophage

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage

The cryptic click-click-clicking of the corpus clock comes primarily from its disquieting locust escapement, grinding away the hours as its gaping mouth moves in the effort to live up to the... »

Inspired Inventions, Astounding Timepieces, Amazing Automata | Edited by DrArroganto and Rachel

San Antonio Prairie, Texas, US

Magic Lantern Castle Museum

Only Museum dedicated to the history of the Magic Lantern

A magic lantern, the earliest known slide projector, dates all the way back to the late 1600s. Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit scholar of geology and medicine, first published his study of the... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Inspired Inventions, Amazing Automata | Edited by AnnaFiddler and Rachel

San Jose, California, US

California Trolley and Railroad Corporation

Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park

Established in 1982, the California Trolley and Railroad Corporation (CTRC), is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the fascinating history of the Santa Clara Valley railways,... »

Museums and Collections, Amazing Automata | Edited by Rachel

Super 8 Motel Wetaskiwin, Canada

Reynolds-Alberta Museum

An automotive, farming machinery, and aviation museum located in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada

The Reynolds-Alberta museum has one of the world's best historical collections of transportation and industrial machinery. Charmingly, the collection was started by Stan Reynolds a local car... »

Museums and Collections, Retro-Tech, Amazing Automata | Edited by elinar and Dylan

Parcines - Partschins, Italy

Peter Mitterhofer Typewriter Museum

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

Open since 1998, this purpose-built museum in Italy’s Bolzano region holds over 1,500 typewriter models in its permanent collection. The museum was built in honour of Peter Mitterhofer, one of the... »

Unique Collections, Instruments of Science, Electrical Oddities, Amazing Automata | Edited by trowel and Rachel

Los Angeles, California, US

Tom Mankiewicz Conservation Carousel

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

Overlooking the Elephants of Asia exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo, the new $2.5 million Tom Mankiewicz Conservation Carousel is like no other carousel in the world. Consisting of 66 hand-carved and... »

Amazing Automata, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Rachel

fitzwilliam, United Kingdom

Lord Mayor’s Parade, Belfast

Robotic car thieves, freakish animals and huge neon floats in Northern Ireland's capital

Featuring an eclectic gathering of robotic car-stealing monsters, multi-headed animals and Chinese dragons, the Lord Mayor’s Parade turns the streets of Belfast into a wild celebratory festival... »

Amazing Automata, Wondrous Performances | Edited by Dampo and atimian

Olomouc, Czech Republic

Olomouc's Communist Clock

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock

Every day at noon, twelve chimes are hammered out by little "communists" at the Olomouc Astronomical Clock in Olomouc, Prague. The clock was originally built during the medieval era between... »

Astounding Timepieces, Amazing Automata | Edited by Tre, Henry and 2 others

Qingshui, China

The Amazing Robots of Wu Yulu

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap

In 1986 the movie Short Circuit came out and hit number one at the box office. It was the story of lovable robot Johnny 5, and perhaps the first time a robot was the protagonist of a film. That... »

Inspired Inventions, Electrical Oddities, Retro-Tech, Amazing Automata | Edited by serflac and Dylan