An Automaton that Carmen found this morning....

... while I went off to the 'Y' for a spinning class. Apparently she found it in a novel she was reading. An automaton is what we would probably call a robot (from a Czech word meaning 'worker'). It was essentially a clockwork man, or a 'tick-tock man' as the wicked witch called the Tin Man in Oz.

Anyway, it is worth a look. It is an amazing mechanism. And it has much better handwriting that I do.