Mechanical Toys & Games:
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Toy
makers have long experimented with ways that
toys could simulate human and other real-life
action. Key-wound clockwork mechanisms, mass
produced by the late 1800s, revolutionized
the toy world. Different mechanisms could
motivate dolls, engines, cars, boats, and
other novelty toys, producing amazing and
eccentric variations of speed and direction.
Although many of these were ostensibly designed
as children's playthings, they were equally
appealing to adults. |
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