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Object of the Week for October 25

“The Wonderful Creeping Baby”

With the turn of a key, this doll appears to crawl along a flat surface. Inside the ca. 1900 doll’s body is a spring-driven mechanical movement that moves the arms and legs and rolls the doll along on two hidden wheels. Do you have any moving toys?

Take a Slow, Close Look at a Bat in Flight with Smithsonian Channel

Links

  1. Want to look inside the Creeping Baby to see its mechanisms?
  2. See Thomas Edison's scary Talking Doll at NMAH
  3. Another automaton - this one 450 years old and still in motion!
  4. Have you ever seen a 'ghost star?' with SAO
  5. Spiders depicted larger than life - on a postage stamp
  6. After seeing a bat in flight, check out its skeleton!
  7. Listen to The Spirit of Halloween from Smithsonian Folkways