While searching for something quite different, I accidentally ran across this wonderful creation. It’s a mechanical nanny, pushing a pram. A man named Simon Johnson has written an extensive article about the design, and how to replicate it. The original, apparently, was made by a man named Andreas Konkoly.
The parts are largely from a Meccano set. Johnson says that Konkoly claimed that the nurse took 80 steps (“tripping, short steps” which were “based on the mechanism of woman’s walk”), but Johnson is dubious about that. He offers quite a good discussion of why the device can’t quite work that way. And a lot of information, too, on how the bosom was created. Modelers, take note.
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