Technical Marvels, Part 9: Program-Controlled Musical Picture Clocks
Parts of the painting, such as people, animals, and windmills, move in some picture clocks.
Technical Marvels, Part 9: Program-Controlled Musical Picture Clocks
Parts of the painting, such as people, animals, and windmills, move in some picture clocks.
Technical Marvels, Part 8: Historical Surveying Instruments
Geometrical instruments in the 17th century focused on measuring distances and heights.
Technical Marvels, Part 7: Musical Clocks and Organs
Many clocks, automaton figures, furniture, and jewelry have built-in musical mechanisms.
Technical Marvels, Part 6: Musical Automatons
Music automatons range from singing birds and music boxes to barrel organs and self-playing pianos.
Technical Marvels, Part 5: Chess Automatons
Chess has been a touchstone for artificial intelligence.
Technical Marvels, Part 4: Leonardo da Vinci’s Robots
Polymath Leonardo da Vinci designed a wide range of machines and instruments over 500 years ago.
Technical Marvels, Part 3: The Yupana
Technical Marvels, Part 2: Lebombo and Ishango Bones
A look at some of the earliest mathematical instruments.
The Dangers of Digitization, and The Importance of Data Backup
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