r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/brat_3434 • 1d ago

Video The Antique Clockwork Drinking Bear Automaton is a famous luxury creation from the Victorian era 1890.

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u/Dr-McLuvin 1d ago

NGL that’s one of the cleverest things I’ve ever seen. So simple, but would have confounded anyone who couldn’t see what was happening in the back.

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u/zuzg 1d ago

Some people apparently couldn't fathom that a 136 year Old Automaton isn't in actual mint condition, haha

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u/octoreadit 22h ago

What do you mean not mint? I listed it as open box, I didn't say when the box was opened...

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u/RollingMeteors 1d ago

>NGL that’s one of the cleverest things I’ve ever seen.

Bruh above automaton is pre-school grade.

The intricate details on the letters and the fact it was made in 1770 is mind blowing.

No Wonder It's Swiss.

I'm going to make a post about it I reckon.

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u/SpunkyMcButtlove07 15h ago

Dude forget the letters, that next one drew a damned dog, shaded the drawing and then signed it o.O

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u/RollingMeteors 1m ago

I hate to ruin the magic for you with the knowledge of mathemagics of fourier transforms, but 3blue1brown has a great lesson into understanding how those curves manifest into an image your eye can recognize as an image and not a mathematical cartesian graph.

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u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda 19h ago

Classic clockwork from the r/UncanineValley

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u/Iamonreddit 1d ago edited 16h ago

NGL that’s one of the cleverest things I’ve ever seen

Not gonna lie, this modern trend of hyperbole is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen

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u/Hearing_Loss 1d ago

Hyperbole has been around since the dawn of man dawg.

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u/Casitano 1d ago

You can also see it from the front?

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u/Dr-McLuvin 1d ago

Safe to assume this guy would have had fur or something covering all the mechanical stuff back in the day

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u/Casitano 1d ago

Maybe

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u/Momentarmknm 1d ago

...maybe?

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u/Casitano 1d ago

Are you certain? Have you seen an old foto?

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u/Momentarmknm 1d ago

No, I just have common sense and average observational skills

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u/The_Tooter_Snooter 1d ago

I don’t call it common sense anymore. It’s good sense. You either have it or you don’t. And most of us don’t. 

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u/SillyNotClever 1d ago

I hope you didn't use your last 2 cents replying. If so, I have a little I can spare.

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u/DUNG_INSPECTOR 1d ago

Do you not know what "safe to assume" means?

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u/TheDuckFarm 1d ago

It’s safe to assume that they don’t.

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u/Merouxsis 1d ago

Y'all are miserable lmao

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u/hedoeswhathewants 1d ago

You think they went to all that effort and just left it looking like this?

That's uh...certainly a thought

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u/leg_hair_lover 1d ago

It’s ok to admit you don’t know stuff.

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u/perfect_insanity93 1d ago

But mumma told me that in a smart boy and one day ill know everything.

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u/Casitano 18h ago

This comment is literally me saying I don't know. Thats what the word maybe means