A tour of Roentgen's 1785 mechanical desk

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/03/01/a-tour-of-roentgens-1785-mechanical-desk.html

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Steam Punk alarms are going off like it’s Christmas.

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Awesome design and engineering.

(Unlike fucking YouTube - or is it The Met? - whose design and engineering decides I’d rather see a huge box over the video than see what the video is trying to show me, just because we’re within a few seconds of the end and I might, oh, I don’t know, leave YouTube/The Met when it does end.)

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Well, clockpunk

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I feel like these might be the inspiration for some of the mechanical puzzle boxes in The Room series of video games

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I was all excited because I thought this was about Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, the physicist who discovered x-rays on November 8, 1895. Nope!

Cool desk, though.

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I was just wondering how any of those wonderful devices generated radiation.

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I immediatly thought of them. Some of my favourite iPad games.

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