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[steampunktendencies]

The Writer: A 250-Year-Old Mechanical Marvel by Pierre Jaquet-Droz

The automaton "The Writer," created by watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790) in the 1750s, is a mechanical marvel. Jaquet-Droz, known for his watchmaking skills, built this automaton along with two others to showcase his expertise. Comprising 6,000 parts, this 250-year-old machine uses a stack of 40 cams with three shaped edges to translate the movements of the boy's arm. "The Writer" can inscribe any custom text up to 40 letters long, spread over 4 lines. In 1906, it was purchased for 75,000 gold francs (a colossal sum at the time) by the History and Archaeology Society of Neuchâtel.

[authorwesleyallison]

The Two Dragons – The Sorceress and the Dragon Book 5 - Adventure in a world of steam and magic, dinosaurs and dragons, wizards and rifles! - $2.99 Epic Fantasy@Smashwords - #Fantasy #Steampunk - https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/152056

[un1tamed1fox]

Alice of Wonderland Playing Cards

"My project is about storytelling - it's about Alice's continued adventures in Wonderland to be precise. Fairy tales make for a great entertaining medium, and growing up I was fascinated by them. I want to take that same love and passion we all reminisce about and put them into a deck of playing cards - the cards that come from my vision of Wonderland. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's (Charles Dodgson) original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, I wanted to take this classic story further, by continuing Alice's Adventures as a young lady who earns the title - "Alice of Wonderland". My deck of playing cards, as well as my main story, has a Steampunk Wonderland theme. I am keeping the traditional de la Rue design style by only illustrating the face cards and keeping the numbered cards basic, but with a hint of Wonderland."  Juan Solorzano