Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Perpetual parking motion


Car elevator, Technofix (ref. 266), Germany, 1952

Some of the early mechanical toys are also fascinating. In this case, how to create a perpetual motion using the rotation to raise and lower the top lane and the gravity to roll the cars down. 

You can see this working here...

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Burton's Bat ...


Batman, Bully (?), Germany, 1989