[MyFirstSass]

If you're ever i Vienna i can really recommend the historical art museum, to my surprise i found myself in a room with dozens of automatons:

https://www.khm.at/objektdb/?id=11227&L=0&q%5B%5D=automaton&...

I was absolutely floored at the detail and the descriptions of what these different relics would actually do - super advanced! Many of them were made as centrepieces for banquets but looked way too important for that (can't impress fellow members of the aristocracy too much).

I distinctly remember a ship that would drive around on the table, with music coming from inside of it - many of the men looked like they would move around on deck - and finally the ship would fire real tiny cannonballs across the table, imagine that at a dinnerparty in 1585, almost 500 years ago!