Tetiana Pfaifer on Instagram: "The Peacock Clock is one of the most famous masterpieces of decorative automaton art.. When activated, the peacock slowly opens its tail, the owl turns its head, the rooster crows — and time becomes a performance. The time is shown in a slot in the cap of the mushroom. Today this is the only large 18th-century automaton that has come down to use altered and in functioning condition. Created in London by James Cox in the 1770s and later acquired for Catherine the Gr

Business | Wealth | Tech on Instagram: "In his 1926 masterpiece The General, Buster Keaton performed one of the most hazardous stunts in cinematic history by riding on the "cowcatcher" of a moving steam locomotive to clear the tracks of heavy wooden ties. With no safety harnesses or digital effects, Keaton leaned precariously over the front of the engine, using one massive beam to strike another and bounce it off the rails just seconds before it could cause a fatal derailment. This scene was not