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Automata On The March

Posted by Hemos on from the the-joy-of-playing dept.

OldSchool writes "The Morris Museum (NJ) was recently awarded The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of 700 historic mechanical musical instruments and automata (mechanical figures). The extraordinary collection represents one of the most significant of its kind in the world. There's pictures, demos, and animation of these devices at the museum website."

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  1. The Most Toys by f4llenang3l · · Score: 5, Funny

    You just know that the museum director has gone mad and is currently hatching a diabolical scheme to get Data in that collection, too...

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  2. At Long Last! by stupidninja · · Score: 4, Funny

    My Formal Languages and Automata Theory class is finally going to be useful!

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  3. queue the NDFA jokes by wwest4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonderd if they have the skeleton of that little person they used in that automagic chess "machine?"

  4. Obviously Incomplete... by PornMaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's got to be incomplete without an animatronic bear playing banjo and singing, "It's a small world after all."

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  5. Mechanical Toys... by MosesJones · · Score: 2, Funny


    Sounds like the DoD procurement department.

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  6. Thats how it starts by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sept 27 2007 the little drummer boy becomes self aware

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    1. Re:Thats how it starts by kabocox · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sept 27 2007 the little drummer boy becomes self aware

      Not to worry, all little drummer boys are defenseless, cute and not self ware by definition. IF they do gain self awarness, the first thing that they do is complain to their mom about how much of a dork that they look in the little drummer outfit. Instead of seeking the destruction of man kind, the self ware drummer boy well be seeking more stylish clothes.

  7. Hmm by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 2, Funny
    The fine folks over at realdoll.com need to take a gander at this place.

    Get moving, boys. We're wating for our sexbots.

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  8. Am I the only one... by halivar · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that looked at the title and thought "Cool! An interview with Hopcroft and Ullman."

    Then I click and see the doll dusting the picture, and I go mad Cthluthlu-style.

  9. Holy crap by hoborocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jeez, a "vibrant educational and cultural center in New Jersey"? I live ~5 minutes from there...went to church right around the corner for a while...

    I'd hardly call it a "vibrant" anything! Well, they did have a Harley exhibit once, it was pretty cool....but it's such a small place. I guess then it's fitting that they have these small objects for show :-)

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