Image
Category
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

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

1994

‘Autoperipatetikos’ Walking Doll

1862

Automaton, 'Body Language'

1988

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley

1984

Bird in cage automaton

1900-1910

‘Giselle’ dancing automaton by Marenghi

1890-1900

Anthropomimetic robotic forearm and hand

1997

Jack the Smoking Head, Sales Automaton

1850-1865

Biped robot

1987-1997

Anthropomimetic arm employing air muscles

2001

Automaton monkey

1850

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

Automaton entitled 'E.coli Theatre', commissioned for the Health Matters gallery, made by Andy Hazel, 1993

E.coli Theatre

1993

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

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

Spinning Jenny Automaton

1800-1815