- Analog Tonalities by Fran Blanche -
A montage of closeups illustrating the dance of the inner workings of the 220+ year old Maillardet Automaton in action. I shot this footage in February 2014 during some routine maintenance at the Franklin Institute, with Andrew Baron and William LaFond also present. What, no audio? Actually the sports exhibit hall is right outside the door and the noise of that drowned out any sounds the Automaton makes, which is actually almost nothing. The Maillardet Automaton is quiet by design, as its clockwork is entirely encased in the cabinet base, so when running it makes no noticeable sounds.
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A montage of closeups illustrating the dance of the inner workings of the 220+ year old Maillardet Automaton in action. I shot this footage in February 2014 during some routine maintenance at the Franklin Institute, with Andrew Baron and William LaFond also present. What, no audio? Actually the sports exhibit hall is right outside the door and the noise of that drowned out any sounds the Automaton makes, which is actually almost nothing. The Maillardet Automaton is quiet by design, as its clockwork is entirely encased in the cabinet base, so when running it makes no noticeable sounds.
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Oh..my..god wow incredible freaky but incredible😳😉
Awesome video! Living in India I haven't got to see an automaton in real, it'd be great if you could share a CAD file (if it exists) or something to understand the underlying mechanism
Fun Fact!
Henri Maillerdet, the creator of this automaton, is actually my great ancestor! Over the course of the years, obviously our family surnames have changed, and my grand dad is really into history and he has researched our family history for years, and he eventually led it all the way back to Henri Maillerdet!
We think that I got my brains (I had an iq of 147 when I was six, and I'm 11 now) and my eye colour (because everyone else in my fami,y has either blue or green eyes, and I'm the only one in our whole living family to have hazel eyes!) from this genius of my ancestor, henri maillerdet.
Fran Blanche, please pin/favourite this comment because , as I've said in this comment, I'm related to Henri Maillerdet and I'd love to know that your genually interested in the history of it and that it's not just for the views… so ye 🙂
To see more about this type of machine watch the movie "Hugo". A similar Atomaton is part of the show.
For some more stuff about Automaton watch the movie "Hugo" where a similar device makes an apperance.
what's sad about this is we could be so far more advanced in the field of robotics if automatons like this and animatronics that came later weren't passed off as art pieces and carnival tricks
heck i imagine this could even have been adapted to be a form of primitive telepresence with some work and creativity, though i guess until the television was invented few would have even considered the idea
Very cool and slightly scary.
Reminds me of Syberia.
So amazing. I love this.
That's so cool
very very cool
Mmmh, would be interesting to write a program that reads GCode/DXF/Vector Drawing, and converts it to the kinematics of this machine, spitting out the shape of the brass disks to control the movement to be machined (I assume they can be swapped out to switch the drawings ?). Creating new "software" for an historic artifact is in essence active curation.
Fran, Thank you for Sharing! Absolutely amazing!… Joel