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When exploring sites, check for “galleries” or “portfolios”.  Also look for videos.

In most cases you can order items on-line

Many sites have links to other related sites


FIGURES IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION

    www.figuresinthefourthdimension.com   [THE definitive book on mechanical movement]

AUTOMATA LINKS

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre

    www.cabaret.co.uk     [automata, books, cut-outs, wooden kits, videos, blog, etc.]

Automata Links

    www.kugelbahn.ch/3_link_automata.htm     [just a big page of links]

MAD Museum  (Mechanical Art & Design Museum)     [all sorts of mechanical and kinetic work]              

     www.themadmuseum.co.uk     [nice educational and historical section]

Flying Pig

    www.flying-pig.co.uk     [paper kits and cut-outs, books, visual illustration of mechanisms]

Timberkits

    www.timberkits.com     [wooden kits to assemble, or buy already assembled]

Hitchcocks

    www.avac77.dsl.pipex.com     [automata and folk toys and a few paper kits]

Automata

    www.automata.co.uk/

               [a “help site” with an introduction to automata with good illustrations of mechanisms]

Kinetic Mechanized Toys and Automata

    www.thelivingweb.net/kinetic_toys_sculpture.html     [all kinds of links]

Automata and Mechanical Toys

     www.mechanical-toys.com

Machines Table of Contents

    www.galaxy.net/~k12/machines/index.shtml

               [basic information on mechanics (designed for school kids)]

Automatomania

    www.automatomania.com     [passionate restorers and dealers of antique automata]

Paperpino

    www.paperpino.net     [paper kits  (some free)]

CLASSICAL AUTOMATA

Francois Junod

    http://people.timezone.com/mdisher/decorte/junod/junodpart1.htm     [full-scale automata]

AMERICAN MAKERS

Dan Torpey

    http://barkingdogsautomata.homestead.com/home.html

Dug North

    www.dugnorth.com

Tom Haney

    www.tomhaney.com

John Morgan

    http://www.auburn.edu/~morgaj3/

Thomas Kuntz

     www.artromic.com

CANADIAN MAKERS

Al Conquergood

     www.conquergoodcreative.com

David Dumbrel

     www.davesudiorama.com

BRITISH MAKERS

Keith Newstead

    www.keithnewsteadautomata.com

Neil Hardy

    www.fabulousanimals.com/default.asp

Carlos Zapata

     www.carloszapataautomata.co.uk          

Philip Lowndes

    www.lobot.co.uk

Wanda Sowry

     www.wandasowry.com

Jan Zalud

     www.janzalud.co.uk

Robert Race

     www.robertrace.co.uk

Ian McKay

     www.ianthetoymaker.co.uk

FRENCH MAKERS

Pierre Mayer

    pierremayermagic.unblog.fr

JAPANESE AUTOMATA WEBSITES

Karakuri Ningyo

    www.karakuri.info     [the history and tradition of the Karakuri (Japanese automata)]

Yoshihiro Banba

    http://bbb.if.tv/index.html


AUSTRALIAN MAKERS

Archer’s Arcadia - David Archer -Australian

    www.archersarcadia.com