mechanical toys
12 Great Mechanical Toys + Instructions and Templates
A Superb Collection Of Retro Toy Plans: And Most of Them are Free!Here are they. A bunch of nice mechanical tin or wooden toys that you can make yourself. Gravity toys. Papercraft toys. Lovely toys. I have collected some of the greatest classics and made sure...
Mechanical Trains Are Rolling On The Rails
Made Of Wood Or Tin, They Bring One Old Era At HomeWhen was the last time you traveled by train? Did you take your kids with you? If you've missed to do it, take them next time. Traveling by train can't be compared to driving a car, it's a whole...
Push'em, Pull'em, They Are Always With You
The Mechanical Toys Of Little ChildrenIt's a pity that toddles and young children can't play with most old fashioned mechanical toys. Small parts, chocking hazards, you know. You just can't give a cool wind-up bird to a 2 years old and expect everything to be fine. If by any chance...
History of Mechanical Toys
How It All Began And Where Are Mechanical Toys Today Archytas of Tarentum and His Flying Pigeon - 400 years BCOne of the first mechanical toys ever created was the flying pigeon of Archytas of Tarentum. His toy was wooden and propelled on a wire by escaping steam. Accordingly to Aristotle...
How To Make a Waddle Duck Toy
Don't Shoot The Duck, It Walks The Best It Can!The waddle duck is a very simple mechanical toy - it does not have even a cam mechanism. The waddling duck is powered by simple physics - gravity power and friction. The video below explains the physics in great details and...
Mechanical Wooden Toys Are For All Ages
The warm wood material and metal gears can team together for great toysMoving crocodiles, dynosaurus, cars and machines made of wood? Why not, if they are mechanical toys? Most of the time when talking about mechanical retro toys we have used to think about tin and wind ups but the
...The Magic of Automata and Mechanical Toys
Mechanical toys impress with simple yet ellegant gearsHave you forgotten the toys from your childhood? You could get a drummer, wind the spring with a little tin key and it would start beating the drum with almost perfect movements. Then when it stops drumming you could get the key, wind...
