Amazing Film of Mechanisms

[Mr. Boltneck]

Make blog posted this extraordinary video of a film made in the 1930's which illustrates a wide range of basic (and some not-so-basic) mechanisms:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/02/mechanical-principles-ca-1930.html
Steampunks of a sensitive or excitable nature should have smelling salts handy, and perhaps a place to recline. It's that good.

[Dr von Zarkov]

Good find! I've seen the Boston Museum of Science exhibits and highly recommend them. They are known as the Clark Collection of Mechanical Movement Models.

These Dover books might interest you:

507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices
Basic Machines and How They Work
Paper Models That Move: 14 Ingenious Automata, and More