Website: http://www.lilana.com/mechanicalcuriosities/
Edmund Dohnert grew up as a shy, imaginative child in the 1950s. He enjoyed creating art, and used to tinker with all kinds of mechanical things with his father. Edmund trained as an engineer, and began building automata in his spare time in the 1980s.
Wimshurst Electrical Discharge Machine (2002)
The Zig-Zagging Rolling Ball Machine (1996)
Victor Rat Trap No 3 (2003)
Victor Rat Trap No 2 (2003)
Victor Rat Trap No 1 (1991)
Up One Spiral And Down The Other (2007)
An Old Brownie Movie Camera Put To Bad Use (1989)
Mechanical Snakedance (2008)
La Grande Machine: A Towering Mechanical Symphony (2004)
A Clockwork Folly (1987)
Ballet With Three Pendulums (2002)
Art Deco Majesty (2009)
Art Deco Elegance And The Mystery Arm (1999)
The Altar Of Complexity (2007)