[vcf-midatlantic] suggested viewing

Jeffrey Jonas jeffrey.scott.jonas at gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 04:41:24 EST 2020


Wintergatan is famous for making amazing marble music machines,
and a weekly video of other mechanical music machines:
https://www.youtube.com/user/wintergatan2000/videos

One of his marble machines was exhibited at a museum just for music machines:
https://www.museumspeelklok.nl/lang/en/
just one of many music museums:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_museums

James Burke's "Connections" shows how cams and pegged cylinders
evolved into punched card looms and tabulator cards
episide 4 "Faith in Numbers" https://youtu.be/z6yL0_sDnX0?t=2150

"The Secret Life Of Machines" http://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/
explores computer history in the episode
"The Word Processor" https://youtu.be/nN9wNvEnn-Q


enjoy!

-- Jeff Jonas


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