Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

6 of 53 comments (clear)

  1. um, yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    why is this stuff that matters ?

  2. Oh No! by omghi2u · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh no! Was it hacked because for flutist it says "The Flautist!!!" Maybe it was that girl who did SCO.

    At least I've been to that site.

    But really, I WANT THAT RING!!!

    Prrreeciousss!!!

  3. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh good, now they're spamming for free photo iPods, too.

    Fucking douchebag... just get a job and leave the pyramid schemes off /., okay?

  4. moD down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    then disapp?eared Slashdot 'BSD is

  5. firSt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    over the 5ame Population as well Simple solution

  6. Re:But... by Politburo · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's okay. We don't want you here anyway. Same with the mod that marked this 'insightful'.