New Scientist Recreates Heron's Automata Mover
Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria is one of the first well-documented automata-makers in history. He designed many ingenious devices. The folks over at The New Scientist have made a working model of a self-propelled, programmable cart that was used on stage. Very cool.
I learned of the video first from BoingBoing.net.
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posted by Dug North on Saturday, July 07, 2007
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