Tipu’s Tiger is an 18th-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger mauling a near life-size European man. [602×768]
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Tipu’s Tiger is an 18th-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger mauling a near life-size European man. [602×768]
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Tipu’s Tiger is an 18th-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (present day Karnataka) in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger mauling a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside the tiger and the man’s body make one hand of the man move, emit a wailing sound from his mouth and grunts from the tiger. In addition a flap on the side of the tiger folds down to reveal the keyboard of a small pipe organ with 18 notes
You can see it for yourself in the British Museum. It’s… a lot.
So not a leopard eating face party mascot…
Just scrolling through reddit and saw what I thought was some sort of weird gritty Toy Story fan fiction. #RIPwoody