#1773

[mockva]

Silver Swan Automaton… no motors, built in 1773 and still working perfectly. The Silver Swan is powered entirely by mainsprings and brass clockwork gears. Why did we stop creating such elegant engineering and beautiful pieces of art… timeless and built to last? Joseph Merlin also invented the roller skate 1760. To show them off, he skated into a fancy London ballroom while playing the violin. He sped out of control and crashed straight into a massive, mirror, destroying the violin and injuring himself.

[cosmonautroger]

Tardigrade, 1773

[nemfrog]

Endpaper.

Monde primitif. 1773.

Internet Archive

[catplushoftheday]

WILMA the Calico

By Douglas Cuddle Toys

2001-2009

#1773

[doyoulikethischaracterdesign]

Yi from Arknights

"The eighth of the Sui proxies and fourth brother of the siblings, Yi is associated with architecture. He is the owner of the Garden of Grotesqueries and I want to grab him by his tail and swing him around like a flail. Transgender colored..."

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[justfritzschillerthings]

Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller, aus Marbach gebürtig, alt 13 Jahre, hat sich, bei vorgenommener Untersuchung seiner Leibesbeschaffenheit, mit einem ausgebrochenen Kopf¹ und etwas verfrörten² Füßen behaftet, sonst aber gesund befunden.

— Ärztliches Attest, I. Hof- und Militärischer Pflanzschule Medikus D. Storr, Solitude [Stuttgart], 16. Januar 1773

¹ Hautausschlag oder Akne (danke @ Hermann Fischers Schwäbisches Wörterbuch 1904) ² verfroren

[diemelusine]

Isabel María Parreño Arce y Valdés, marquesa de Llano (1773) by Anton Raphael Mengs. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

[dimity-lawn]

Nobody:

Me trying to decide what to do on December 16th, 2025: