I've been meaning to produce my own cuccoo mechanism, and I've fixed an original german one's bellow before with one I made, but I couldn't figure out the type of wheel to use for a mechanism I make, but this looks much simpler than the one in the original clock, so thank you!
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2:03 I’m fascinated and somewhat frightened by the uncanny valley (and the ingenuity) of the automata’s - and this one really gave me shivers. Most human automata’s have this weird age-ambiguous face. They have facial hair but they look like a toddler. This one actually looks like an adult, but very off due to the unsynchronised blinking. Also I don’t get the tongue thing. I’ve seen it in multiple automata’s and it kind of creeps me out for some reason. It’s a love hate relationship tbh. I wouldn’t want to be alone in a room with a human automata, but I’m also incredibly fascinated by them.
Hugh Laurie presenting? nice, these machines are made of my fever dream nightmares, so its nice to see some 'behind the scenes' to sort of bring it back down to reality lol
One of the best use of automata in movies, which has always stuck with me ever since I saw it as a kid, was the fortune teller automata in the movie "Big"
In an alternate reality, I would love to have seen Tim Hunkin and Michael Wright in collaboration; a true battle of practical genius. Though, Tim's just a _little_ bit more modest than Michael Wright, which would've made it interesting. But Tim Hunkin helped shaped the person I became, Michael Wright didn't. He is a treasure to humanity. ❤
I remember, when I was a kid, amusement arcades used to have automotons in glass cabinets. You'd stick a penny in & watch the scene. I always remember The Haunted House or Haunted Castle. The grandfather clock would open & reveal a skeleton, a floorboard would rise up revealing a dead body, a man would sit upright in bed when a ghost appeared in the wardrobe etc etc. Anyone else remember those?
I must have gone to this museum around 1995, hadn't realised it was closed. York was lovely, had a great time, especially on the ghost walk! The automata collection was unique, I actually remember seeing some of these, quite amazing. The forerunner of the industrial revolution in some ways, and in 1770 the first programmable machine, the boy writer.
I applied for a job there in the early Nineties but never got it-and never went. I think it closed down shortly after that. I wish I had gone after watching this. 0904 number tells how long ago that was made!
The Hero steam engine doesn't work by virtue of the gas jet impacting anything external, it is the impact inside the tube on the bend of the pipe that impels it.
