Coloured water
Happy New Year an’ all that.
We went to the science museum today to have a look at this.
It’s a model of the economy made with pipes and valves and tanks and bits of wire. Wonderful! I’ve passed it by in my previous visits to the Science Museum. And today, while I sat on the floor peering into its case, several other visitors pushed the big, red button on the video machine next to it only to wander off when the voice announced “In this computer, money is represented by coloured water”
I tried to imagine coloured water flowing through the valves and pipes (it’s not been run since 1991, to preserve the mechanism) and took these pics with the amazing camera on Nic’s ‘phone, including this one of a cartoon of the machine from Punch magazine in 1953:
NGN Says:
… not forgetting the splendid animation of “the profit cycle” - or some such title - I saw after you’d recommended the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre :-}
Happy New Year, and when will you be heading north?
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:30 pmMark Says:
Hey Niels
What exactly was it you saw animated? Where can I get to see it? Was it actually at the automaton museum in Covent Garden? That’s long gone now I fear.
January 6th, 2007 at 4:39 pm