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	Automaton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When his writing on hydraulics, pneumatics, and mechanics were translated into Latin in the sixteenth century, Hero’s readers initiated reconstruction of his machines, which included siphons, a fire engine, a water organ, and various steam-powered devices.
		Seventeenth-century France was the birthplace of those ingenious mechanical toys that were to become prototypes for the engines of the industrial revolution.
		Contemporary automata are represented by the works of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre in the United Kingdom and Dug North in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Automaton (720 words)

	Traveling - Cabaret Mechanical
		A wild and whimsical collection of mechanical automata - large and small sculpture that are moved by turning a crank or pushing a button - are available for your museum, direct from London.
		Called Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, the exhibition includes 25 funny, surreal, subversive moving automata, many that were formerly on view at Covent Garden, and remained there for fifteen years.
		Underlying Cabaret Mechanical Theatre are the gears and cams that turn in full view, exposing mechanisms that translate into the funny, wondrous and colorful actions of the automata.
	www.exploratorium.edu /cmp/travel/cabaret1.html (162 words)

	Brock Institute for Advanced Studies all rights reservedP.
		All of the mechanisms were animated by a electric motors behind the board.
		In the preface to one of his books on mechanisms [Ref 2], Gardner Hiscox said: "The deeper we delve in the research for novelty and variety in the present field of mechanical design, the more we see the possibilities of human ingenuity.
		The mechanisms shown here are computed and drawn on the fly, that is, the positions of all of the elements are calculated, then drawn using a purpose-built drawing library built on top of Java's graphics routines.
	brockeng.com /mechanism (1597 words)

	cabaret
		Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue - a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance.
		Cabaret is also the name of a Broadway musical.
		Cabaret is also a 1972 film based on that musical.
	www.fact-library.com /cabaret.html (156 words)

	Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, Schools Network
		Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is a commercial educational organisation.
		The partnership of St Martin’s and Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is very successful in organising high quality training for teachers.
		The partnership with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre and participating schools is managed by a coordinator.
	www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk /item.asp?page=16&item=3724 (586 words)

	Cabaret Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre,distinguished mainly by the performance venue - a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (oftendining or drinking) watching the performance.
		The turn of the 19th century introduced a revolutionized cabaret culture with suchperformers including the spectacular Josephine Baker and thelegendary infamous Brazilian drag performer JoãoFrancisco dos Santos (aka Madame Sata), both of African descent.
		Cabaret is also the name of a 1966 Broadway musical.
	www.swingdancemusic.com /send/43162-cabaret%20director.html (306 words)

	Cams - Maillardet's Automaton--Franklin Institute Science Museum
		The heart of the automaton's writing and drawing operation is actually a mechanical "read only memory" in the form of an array of disk cams rotating on a common shaft to drive the right hand of the figure.
		A follower is a mechanism which is designed to move up and down as it follows the edge of the cam.
		If you are interested in designing your own automata, or simply understanding the workings of existing automata more thoroughly, the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre offers an excellent book entitled Cabaret Mechanical Movement for sale through their online store.
	www.sln.org /pieces/knox/automaton/cams.htm (430 words)

	The Observer \| Cash \| Alternative investments: One man and his cogs
		Almost all contemporary automata (mechanical scenes) are jokey and their makers will smile benignly if you call them toys.
		Although Spooner's first solo show in 1993, during Cabaret Mechanical Theatre's 15 years in London's Covent Garden, was titled Scenes from Everyday Life, he favours exotic mythological and religious characters.
		Sue Jackson and daughter Sarah Alexander, founders of the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, had a nail-biting period when many of Cabaret's permanent exhibits were out of circulation in the United States pending the dissolution of a failed business partnership.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /cash/story/0,6903,1297291,00.html (1198 words)

	Bedales Arts Pages
		Cabaret Mechanical Theatre started life in 1979 as Cabaret, a slightly odd crafts shop, which Sue Jackson opened in Falmouth.
		Mechanical pieces soon began to displace other crafts and Sue started to collect examples of these often quirky and humorous works, keeping them on display in the shop, with customers told they could touch but couldn’t buy!
		CMT opened in 1983, with the public paying to operate a collection which grew quickly in size and diversity and soon moved to London’s Covent Garden, finally closing in 2000.
	www.bedales.org.uk /schoolSite/bedArts/BedArts_gallery.html (400 words)

	Theatre, Performing Arts
		The American Association of Community Theatre (AACT) is the national voice of community theatre, representing the interests of its members and over 7,000 theatres across the U.S. American repertory theatre.
		Bhasabharathi is an Institute organised and undertaken by a group of researchers in the field of theatre and allied performing arts.
		London Theatre Guide, from The Society of London Theatre.
	www.zeroland.co.nz /theatre_theater.html (445 words)

	Sculptor.Org - Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
		Composed of two five foot long anthropomorphic, mechanical arms controlled by computers, the work is so amusing, intriguing and mesemerizing that the viewer could easily miss a plane watching the two arms engage and disengage across their expanse of wall.
		In one sculpture (1997), mechanical arms whirl bright yellow scraps of wood in six seemingly incongruous orbits within a fl void, until the scraps are swung into the center, where they fit perfectly together to form a small chair, which after a split second explodes only to fall back together again.
		About Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - It's a collection of contemporary automata, which is a kind of mechanical sculpture.
	www.sculptor.org /Sculptors/mobiles.htm (2493 words)

	MavicaNET - Theatre: London
		London Bubble is London's premier touring theatre company, producing professional and non-professional performances, profesional workshops specifically targeting Londoner's who do not usually experience theatre either as participants or audience members.
		DV8 Physical Theatre's work is about taking risks, aesthetically and physically, about breaking down the barriers between dance, theatre and personal politics.
		Theatre news, list of performancies and theatres where they are on.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/dan/30996.html (572 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Mechanical Cabaret
		One place you can is at the Cabaret Mechanical Festival at the Oxo Tower in London.
		It's an exhibition of mechanical objects which you can move by turning a handle or pressing a button.
		The Cabaret Mechanical Festival runs until 11th January 2004 at the Oxo Tower, London.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/29_12_03/tuesday/info2.shtml (142 words)

	Communications From Elsewhere » Blog Archive » Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
		London’s Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is one of the most amazing places I’ve ever been.
		Filled with beautiful and often humorous mechanical sculptures (some would call them toys, but in this case the line between art and toy is so fine…), it’s well worth a visit when they reopen.
		If I had $900 just lying around, I’d be very tempted to commission one of their gorgeous dragons.
	elsewhere.org /journal/archives/2001/12/03/cabaret-mechanical-theatre (267 words)

	WebSearch - Cabaret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre...
		Cabaret, Bob Fosse, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Helen Vita, Sigrid von Richthofen, Gerd Vespermann, Ralf...
		Cabaret is a 1966 Broadway musical, based on John Van Druten's play...
	www.seekerbar.com /pages/TB50154TE10/Cabaret.html (375 words)

	toy theatre -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The movement was initiated at the beginning of the 20th century by young dramatists, stage designers, and actors who were influenced by the vital European theatre of the late 19th century;...
		The claim has, indeed, been made that puppet theatre is the most ancient form of theatre, the origin of the drama itself.
		Aphorisms on acting appear in the writings of Panini, the Sanskrit grammarian of the 5th century BC, and references to actors, dancers, mummers, theatrical companies, and academies are found in Kautilya's book on statesmanship, the Artha-sa (4th century BC).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9073099 (859 words)

	Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - A Museum of Automata (mechanical sculpture)
		Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - A Museum of Automata (mechanical sculpture)
		If you want to contact us or find out who we are, go to About.
		cabaret mechanical theatre is automata, mechanical sculpture, robots, animatronics, toys, art, fun museum which was in Covent Garden, London UK.
	www.cabaret.co.uk (89 words)

	C, Alphabetized, Theater, Visual Arts, Performing Arts at World Wide Arts Resources
		The Cabaret Theatre is a non-profit organization located on the Douglass Campus of Rutgers University.
		The Caldwell Theatre Company is a fully professional, non-profit regional theater located in Boca Raton, Fla. Founded in 1975,the Caldwell has won over 60 Carbonell awards from the South Florida Critics Association fo their productions of classic dramas,...
		A nonprofit off-off-Broadway theatre that improves the educational success of children through activities based on classic theatre, provides professional development for teachers, and produces plays of classical scope.
	www.wwar.com /categories/Theater/Alphabetized/C (864 words)

	Now Showing
		See how playing is inventing as you use kitchen utensils to guide a rolling ball down a ramp, build block towers on a wobbly surface, and create wind-powered devices.
		Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is a humorous, whimsical exhibition of 20 handmade, moving sculptures brought to life by tiny cranks, pulleys, cams, and gears.
		Their folk art craftsmanship, lifelike gestures, and complex and delicate mechanisms are compelling to see and express the essence of tinkering.
	www.smm.org /visitorinfo/nowshowing/top.php (444 words)

	Theatre, Performing Arts
		The main goal of the network is to distribute and to make available a broad range of information about the professional performing arts to arts professionals world wide.
		The Experimental Theatre Wing is dedicated to initiating students into the artistic process through the medium of theatre.
		Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - A Museum of Automata
	www.zeroland.co.nz /theatre_1.html (584 words)

	Walter Ruffler - Paper Machines - Links
		Guiseppe (Pino) Civitarese from Italy constructs mechanical paper sculptures (www.paperpino.net).
		Keith Newstead lives in Cornwall (Great Britain) and makes mechanical sculptures from metal, wood and paper (www.keithnewsteadautomata.com).
		Dug North in the USA produces mechanical wooden sculptures (www.dugnorth.com).
	www.walterruffler.de /Link.html (323 words)

	Gary Alexander's Shop - Cabaret Mechanical Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This book does not teach you how to draw a horse, but it does remove the mystery that surrounds the world of mechanisms and the business of making things move.
		Cabaret Mechanical Movement contains a lot of theory but it’s also packed with practical tips and ideas for making your own automata, moving toys or mechanical sculpture.
		Theatre, a museum which has delighted its visitors with witty examples of the automata makers art for over 15 years.
	www.gaspweb.co.uk /shop/cmmbook.htm (159 words)

	Plug-ins:Appropriate Use
		The Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, located at Covent Garden, London, UK is a fine example of an appropriate accessible application of achievable virtual reality technology.
		In the virtual Carlos Zapatos Exhibit space at the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre digital images of the same piece of artwork are placed side by side on the page.
		He goes to the trouble of setting up the entry into the exhibition space with Quick Time VR so that you get a feel for the gallery space (grainy images) and are even challenged to find the entrance on your own, instead of just clicking the button to commence.
	www.slais.ubc.ca /courses/libr500/fall1999/www_presentations/c_rauser/6yes.htm (540 words)

	Home And Away - Home Page
		Theatre Breaks Ltd. The original theatre and hotel specialists theatrebreaks.com A Theatre Break can be taken in style or within a budget; for a special occasion or a short break, a "thank-you" or
		Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is a Museum of Automata (Mechanical Sculpture) If you want to contact us or find out
		The National Theatre is a theatre for everyone, performing to all age groups from all
	www.homeandaway.com /England_theatre.htm (660 words)

	IDEASFACTORY West Midlands - Feature
		Tens of moving puppets, concocted by the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre company, perform weird and wonderful feats at the touch of a button.
		The perks of puppet theatre are many - it's acting where you don't have to act if you don't want to, or on the other hand, act very stupidly indeed and still be able to respect yourself in the morning.
		Puppet theatre is alive and well into the 21st century, and are as well loved as they have ever been among kids and adults alike.
	westmidlands.ideasfactory.com /performance/features/feature8.htm (861 words)

	mechanical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The ASME International vision is to be the premier organization for promoting the art, science and practice of mechanical engineering throughout the world.
		Mechanical energy is the energy which is possessed by an object...
		Mechanical Music Digest_ The Mechanical Music Digest (MMD) is a moderated forum, published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail.
	mechanical.pest-control-directory.biz (469 words)

	They're English. They're eccentric. They're automata with lots of attitude.
		It is the very place for a fiendish collection of automata (mechanical toys with moving parts) from that great breeding ground of eccentricity: England.
		The machines are the work of a group of independent English artists who all hail from the same part of England and call themselves Cabaret Mechanical Theatre.
		The cabaret artists make a point of showing the viscera of the machines, which gears turn what lever as the tiny figures swat flies, stir cups of coffee or pick noses.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/28/DDG287TDG61.DTL (826 words)

	VanderWorld: The automaton phenomenon
		The Cabaret Mechanical Theatre have two virtual exhibitions as well as lots of links, educational materials and projects, and kits to build your own automata (but don't, because they'll only come alive at night and scuttle around your house and into your dreams).
		Karakuri are Japanese automata that do such things as serve tea, stand on their hands on pine branches, and have noble countenances.
		The Faulty Optic Theatre of Animation say that they are world-renowned for their haunting visual theatre, automated sets, strange animated figures, cronked inventions and macabre humour.
	vanderworld.blogspot.com /2005/01/automaton-phenomenon.html (811 words)

	Mechanical - Results from HotBot
		Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) IMechE is a professional association founded by George Stephenson, known for the 'Rocket' railway locomotive.
		Mechanical Engineering magazine is the monthly magazine of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
		The MCPS collects and distributes 'mechanical' royalties generated from the recording of music onto many different...
	quick.hotbot.co.uk /cgi-bin/pursuit?query=mechanical&cat=hb_loc&enc=utf-8 (427 words)

	WB Times Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Technically, the theatre is not a museum, but an exhibition of contemporary automata, which is a kind of mechanical sculpture.
		Nearly all of the work is humorous, and what I thought was the coolest at the time is that visitors were allowed to turn handles and push buttons in order to get the sculptures to move.
		Pinney was very interested in the stories we had told him about the Mechanical Cabaret Theatre, and he tried to recreate the moving sculptures.
	westbranchiowa.org /life/facilities/heritagesq/timesarticle.html (893 words)

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