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The Jules Verne-Themed Sanderson Orrery

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An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system, and The Sanderson Orrery, above, is a beautiful Jules Verne-themed one. It comes complete with a steam engine, a time machine, and a pet dinosaur. The music is Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A, K633 – Adagio.

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via The Automata Blog.

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