Hector and Maria Start at The House of Automata, 32 High Street, Forres, repaired a ‘drinking bear’ for the Toy Museum at ...
Even before Mary Shelley imagined the animation of the lifeless in Frankenstein, brilliant minds across Europe – clockmakers, to be exact – were already tinkering in their workshops, breathing life ...
A collection of automata have been drawing in visitors to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. Those behind the Marvellous Mechanical Museum exhibition said it was a blend of art and science, and full ...