240 Yr. Old 'Computer'

[Bogeyman]

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton

I cannot even begin to fathom the amount of thought & work put into this.

 

[PhilD]

That's astonishing! The maker must have been a genius with the patience of a saint.

 

[Bogeyman]

Phil, people like that think on another plain. Just to even contemplate the mechanical forethought necessary for this turns my brain to gel!! Hell, I need a few minutes to think out what socks I'm going to wear!!

 

[MPH]

I made an airfix once.....

 

[Gairdner]

I made an airfix once.....

I tried....

 

[pugh-the-special-one]

Amazing just about trumps my Arifix Human Skeleton model.

 

[LittleAl]

Absolutely terrifying Should have read before clicking the link

Yes, I have a phobia of automata and ventriloquists dummies!

 

[Bechet]

Wasn't that automaton in a movie about a lad who lived in a railway station and wound the clocks?

 

[Boab]

Hugo

 

[JohnnyO]

Absolutely terrifying Should have read before clicking the link

Yes, I have a phobia of automata and ventriloquists dummies!

It's the clowns who are truly scarey ...

JohnnyO. o/

 

[John]

I'm with JohnnyO don't like clowns