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Automaton for Health Matters Gallery representing "Health screening and surveillance of normal populations"

1994

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

Bird in cage automaton

1900-1910

Automaton monkey

1850

‘Autoperipatetikos’ Walking Doll

1862

A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley

1984

‘Giselle’ dancing automaton by Marenghi

1890-1900

Biped robot

1987-1997

Automaton, 'Body Language'

1988

Jack the Smoking Head, Sales Automaton

1850-1865

Anthropomimetic robotic forearm and hand

1997

Anthropomimetic arm employing air muscles

2001

Napoleonic prisoner of war spinning jenny automaton, made of bone, polychrome, with nine figures, c1800-1815

Spinning Jenny Automaton

1800-1815

Rosewood clock with inscription translating as 'made during the reign of Qianlong'. Dial is decorated with five bats and character meaning longevity. Lotus petals are engraved on the base. (So 183169).

Zimingzhong with bats

1700-1799

Automaton using fibreoptic endoscope, made for the Health Matters Gallery, Science Museum, by Andy Hazell and Lucy Casson, United Kingdom, 1994

Automaton using fibreoptic endoscope

1994

Automaton made for Health Matters Gallery by Paul Spooner representing "Centralised Hospital-based medicine contrasted with domestic community-centred practice" which preceded it. Hand carved, largely wooden, 1994

Centralised Hospital-based medicine contrasted with Domestic Community-centred Practice

1994

Red umbrella for top of Wisteria Halt tree assembly

Red umbrella

1984

Picnic basket with ceramic tea set and knitted cakes, for base of tree assembly

Picnic basket and contents

1984

Fisherman and boat, “Nellie”, with union jack ensign and red sail, mermaid is trapped in fishing net

Fisherman and boat, "Nellie" with mermaid

1984

Tree base with squirrel and copper stove, stove lights up, sign reading “Picnic Dell”

Base of tree with squirrel and stove

1984

Gold clock assembly for top of tree, four faces each telling different time

Gold clock with four faces

1984

Roof (cupola) for wishing well, green with pink wheel mechanism for raising bucket

Roof for Wishing Well

1984

Part of track with large green wheel and motor

Main section of track

1984

Buffer for end of track layout

Railway track buffer

1984

Ornithologist, man on bicycle holding a teacake, wearing blue suit, hat, and glasses. Bicycle fixed to base, front wheel steers and back wheel turns, base features trees, birds, and flowers, copper water feature at front

Ornithologist on bicycle in "Twittering Wood"

1984

Sign for “Shrimphaven Sands” attached to tall pole with finial on top

Sign for “Shrimphaven Sands”

1984

Branch with curved copper pole for water wheel

1984

Napoleonic prisoner of war spinning jenny automaton, made of bone, polychrome, with nine figures, c1800-1815

Spinning Jenny Automaton

1800-1815

Jack the Smoking Head, sales automaton, maker unknown, London, 1850-1865.

Jack the Smoking Head, Sales Automaton

1850-1865

Ornithologist on bicycle, “Twittering Wood” with trees, birds, and flowers

Twittering Wood sculpture and associated parts

1984

Water wheel assembly, “Far Tottering” comprising water wheel with copper paddles and one saucepan, base with trough, weather vane, and green support poles

Far Tottering sculpture and associated parts

1984

Tree and clock, “Wisteria Halt” comprising base with squirrel and stove, large tree section with pink flowers, clock with four faces, umbrella, and picnic basket with tea set and cakes

Wisteria Halt sculpture and associated parts

1984

Support for water wheel, green pole with wooden fleur-de-lis top and metal sconce

Support pole for water wheel

1984

Support for water wheel, straight green pole

Straight green support pole for water wheel

1984

Main part of tree with pink flowers and multiple branches

Main tree section

1984

Wishing well basin, blue circular well with yellow border, three poles to support roof in centre

Wishing Well sculpture

1984

“Cow Parsley Meadow” with farmer playing a harp, cow parsley on stalks, and three cows with bobbing heads on base, small milking stool and upturned bucket fixed to base

Cow Parsley Meadow sculpture

1984

Second part of track

Section of track

1984

Locomotive chimney with cloud of “steam”, moves up and down (can be removed from locomotive for movement and storage)

Locomotive chimney with steam

1984

Metal bucket for wishing well, bucket is lifted up and down

Bucket for Wishing Well

1984

Small fisherman who sits by the side of the tracks of the railway

Small fisherman

1984

Seagull on pole, sits atop the boat’s mast

Seagull on pole

1984

Weather vane for top of water wheel

Weather vane

1984

Top of tree branch for Twittering Wood with yellow flowers and birds, rotates

Branch from tree in Twittering Wood

1984

Grey flatbed wagon with man and blue gramophone, man rotates on his chair and gramophone record spins, wagon moves back and forth on track in time with carriage

Flatbed wagon with man playing gramophone records

1984

First class carriage, yellow and green with curtains and glass chandelier, with grandmother seated and grandson leaning out of carriage window, carriage moves back and forth on track

First Class Carriage with grandmother and grandson

1984

Grandson’s butterfly net with small bird attached

Grandson's butterfly net

1984

Section of water for diver, blue wooden board with space for diver to fit through. Four white detachable legs hold the board up

Section of water for diver

1984

Locomotive with driver, “Wild Goose”, driver turns at the waist and is toasting teacakes which rotate, pistons move up and down and locomotive moves back and forth on track

Locomotive with driver, "Wild Goose"

1984

Doll section of ‘Autoperipatetikos’ walking doll, by Martin & Runyon, USA, c1862

‘Autoperipatetikos’ Walking Doll

1862

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