The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
The monk, a mechanical automata that used to be in the cabana de l’ermità (the “hermit’s cabin”) in the Parc del Laberint d’Horta in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).c. 1900.
Patrícia Gabancho: Guia. El Laberint d’Horta. Ajuntament de Barcelona, Barcelona 1998. Author: Unknown
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An early 19th Century Napoleonic prisoner of war bone automaton of a lady
I hope this means that a Prisoner of War made the bone automaton rather that the automaton was made out of Napoleonic Prisoners of War.
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