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Automata built for the sake of art, amusement, and simulation have been described since antiquity, in cases such as Heron of Alexandria designing clockwork birds during the Hellenistic Period. [2] Leonardo da Vinci is frequently credited with constructing a mechanical lion , which he presented to King Francois I in Lyon in 1515.
Cakebread & Walton is a British games company that creates and publishes tabletop games.Best known for its Clockwork & Chivalry, Renaissance System and Abney Park's Airship Pirates games, they also offer titles covering a range of licensed and self-developed properties.
[1]: 430 Cakebread has worked on numerous games and systems including Clockwork & Chivalry, Airship Pirates, Dark Streets, the Renaissance d100 rules, Pirates & Dragons and the popular One Dice rules. [2] Cakebread has also written the novel The Alchemist's Revenge (2013), [3] and was the lead author of the mystery novel The Morecambe Medium ...
Euro Airship is planning an around-the-world, non-stop flight with Solar Airship One. It would be the first flight to make the trip without using fossil fuels.
Basil, Dawson, and Flaversham create an airship from a matchbox, balloons, and a Union Jack, and set off in pursuit. Ratigan tosses Fidget overboard to lighten the load; however, Basil jumps onto the dirigible to confront Ratigan, causing it to crash straight into Big Ben's clockface. Inside the clocktower, Basil restrains Ratigan, rescues ...
The largest airship in the world took its first step toward coming to Akron with a successful first test flight in Silicon Valley. Massive electric aircraft, bigger than Goodyear blimp, has first ...
Tim Wetherell's clockwork universe sculpture at Questacon, Canberra, Australia (September 24, 2009) In 2009, for Questacon, artist Tim Wetherell created a large wall piece that represented the concept of the clockwork universe. This steel artwork contains moving gears, a working clock, and a movie of the moon's terminator in action.
Stained glass depiction of Eilmer of Malmesbury. According to Aulus Gellius, the Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist Archytas (428–347 BC) was reputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device, a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of what was probably steam, said to have actually flown some 200 metres around ...