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Otto Steiger's 1890s calculating machine could multiply by a single digit directly with one turn of its crank.
Arthur Porter built a working differential analyser from Meccano construction parts while waiting for a full-size machine.
Edison's briefly sold 1890 talking doll carried a tiny hand-cranked phonograph and a wax recording of a nursery rhyme inside its metal torso.
Very large cave chambers can sustain localized fog and cloud-like formations when moisture and temperature conditions align.
Rube Goldberg's Self-Operating Napkin made a simple gesture depend on an escalating chain of absurd actions.
In Edo-period kōdō, heated aromatic woods were identified by scent and recorded with playing pieces and geometric symbols.
A sixteenth-century mechanical galleon rolled across a table while figures processed, bells rang, music played, and miniature cannons fired.
Alexander Graham Bell's 1880 photophone vibrated a mirror with speech and reconstructed the sound from a modulated beam of sunlight.
A provision of the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 addresses kite-flying that annoys people in a thoroughfare.
Giant Puppet Project creates large illuminated figures carried through public streets by teams of puppeteers.
