Boing Boing » mechanical http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 17:03:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Finest mechanical bird song of 1890 http://boingboing.net/2012/12/07/finest-mechanical-bird-song-of.html http://boingboing.net/2012/12/07/finest-mechanical-bird-song-of.html#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:39:26 +0000 Dean Putney http://boingboing.net/?p=199049

This lovely mechanical contraption is designed to mechanically recreate bird song. The video uploader says this was made about 120 years ago in Paris, probably by Blaise Bontems who was known for this type of automaton. It's a fascinating, delicate device!

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