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  2. Pop-up book - Wikipedia

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    Animated books combine three elements: story, colored illustrations which include text, and "two or more animated illustrations with their movement mechanisms working between a doubled page". [2] In 1938, Julian Wehr 's animations for children's books were patented as "moving illustrations" that move the picture up and down and horizontally at ...

  3. Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia

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    [4] Many of Goldberg's ideas were utilized in films and TV shows for the comedic effect of creating such rigamarole for such a simple task, such as the front gate mechanism in The Goonies and the breakfast machine shown in Pee-wee's Big Adventure. In Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest P. Worrell uses his invention simply to turn his TV on.

  4. The Moving Picture Books - Wikipedia

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    The Moving Picture Book Company and The Pictorial Color Book Company were early 20th-century American publishers known for producing interactive children's books. These publishers specialized in creating movable books , which featured mechanical illustrations that could move or change scenes with the pull of a tab.

  5. Jansen's linkage - Wikipedia

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    Jansen has used his mechanism in a variety of kinetic sculptures which are known as Strandbeesten (Dutch for "beach beasts"). Jansen's linkage bears artistic as well as mechanical merit for its simulation of organic walking motion using a simple rotary input. [2] These leg mechanisms have applications in mobile robotics and in gait analysis. [3 ...

  6. Three Laws of Robotics - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] These three books, Caliban, Inferno and Utopia, introduce a new set of the Three Laws. The so-called New Laws are similar to Asimov's originals with the following differences: the First Law is modified to remove the "inaction" clause, the same modification made in "Little Lost Robot"; the Second Law is modified to require ...

  7. Sun and planet gear - Wikipedia

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    The Whitbread Engine of 1785. The sun and planet gear is a method of converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion and was used in the first rotative beam engines.. It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, but was patented by James Watt in October 1781.

  8. Barry Keoghan says his family is being harassed amid ... - AOL

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    Barry Keoghan has deactivated his Instagram account amid the "disgusting" behavior of people who allegedly have harassed him and his family.. The Oscar-nominated "Banshees of Inisherin" actor, 32 ...

  9. Slider-crank linkage - Wikipedia

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    With all in-line slider-crank mechanisms, the stroke is twice the length of the crank arm. Therefore, given the stroke, the length of the crank arm can be determined. This relationship is represented as: L 2 = (ΔR 4) max ÷ 2. Once L 2 is found, the follower length (L 3) can be determined. However, because the stroke of the mechanism only ...