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To: sweetiepiezer

Beautiful Peacock clock, sweetie! Thanks so much for posting. Will show to the grands.

From your YT link....

...For more than two centuries now the Hermitage has been adorned by a unique exhibit that never fails to evoke the enchanted admiration of visitors - the famous Peacock Clock. The figures of a peacock, cockerel and owl that form part of this elaborate timepiece-automaton are fitted with mechanisms that set them in motion.

The creation of mechanical birds had long been of interest to inventors: back in the Ancient World figures of “singing” birds had been used to embellish clepsydras - water clocks. In the 18th century the makers of automata tried to create a system that would enable their birds not only to sing, but also to behave as if alive, and they made them life-size. In the middle of the century, for example, the whole of Europe admired the mechanical duck made by the French craftsman Jacques de Vaucanson, which was able to eat, drink, move and behave in the most life-like manner.....

More info at your link.


2,673 posted on 08/23/2019 8:02:40 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings f)
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To: Jane Long
And then there's the cuckoo clock 😜
2,675 posted on 08/23/2019 8:07:24 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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