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