Friday, October 12, 2007

The Museum of Unworkable Devices

Zach also passed along this really quirky page (in which David Jones' work is featured) filled with devices that just don't function. Hey, who knows, a bunch of our studio projects might end up on this page by the end of the year... but hopefully not.

Description of the page:
This museum is a celebration of fascinating devices that don't work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures. Watch and be amazed as we bring to life eccentric and even intricate perpetual motion machines that have remained steadfastly unmoving since their inception. Marvel at the ingenuity of the human mind, as it reinvents the square wheel in all of its possible variations. Exercise your mind to puzzle out exactly why they don't work as the inventors intended.

3 comments:

zach pauls said...
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zach pauls said...

books

Ingenious Gadgets

Eccentric Contraptions

zach pauls said...

http://www.jpo.go.jp/seido_e/rekishi_e/kyota_sugimoto.htm