In what can only be called a stroke of genius Morbid Anatomy is assisting The Morris Museum in creating and distributing this new book devoted to the collection of mechanical instruments and automata in the Guinness Collection. Read more below and to get a copy you can email Morbid Anatomy directly at morbidanatomy [at] gmail.com.

From Morbid Anatomy:

The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection at the Morris Museum is an astounding collection of automata (mechanical toys popular in the 18th and 19th century) and mechanical musical instruments that can be visited in–of all surprising places–Morristown, New Jersey. The collection is mind-blowingly vast; it is, in fact, the largest such public collection in the U. S. and one of the largest in the world, with around 700 automata and mechanical musical instruments and over 5,000 programmed media, nearly all of which are were produced in the 19th Century. (READ FULL DESCRIPTION.)

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