{"id":366,"date":"2005-02-08T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T00:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=366"},"modified":"2008-02-16T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T01:10:56","slug":"359-clockwork-tin-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"#359 :: Clockwork Tin Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/archives\/2005\/01\/012805.html\" onclick=\"window.open('\/archives\/2005\/02\/020805.jpg', <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-over-the-counter.net\" title=\"viagra\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">order<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-professional.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">physician<\/a> &#8216;popup&#8217;, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrabuyonline.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">here<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-price.net\" title=\"drugstore\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">dosage<\/a> &#8216;width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#8217;); return false&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/archives\/2005\/02\/020805-thumb.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>Wind the key, and it goes &#8211; a self-locomoting toy, the culmination of myriad simple technologies in a complex, palm-sized plaything: Wheels &#8211; once just logs used to move other logs, now advanced to trim wheel\/hub\/axle design. Tin lithography &#8211; the semblance of color, depth and detail printed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/17115-2.html\">Benday dots<\/a> on machine-cut, rust-prone sheet metal that&#8217;s folded and slotted together, tab A to slot B and so on, until it takes shape as a bus. Clockwork &#8211; spring-driven cogs and gears store energy pumped in by a few revolutions of the key, then convert it to be pumped out as hundreds of revolutions of the axles. It makes a clicking sound when being wound, a ratcheting sizzle when released to glide across the kitchen floor, invisible passengers hidden behind painted windows &#8211; tiny avatars to your rapid transit fantasies. The &#8220;Blue Giant&#8221; is made in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}