{"id":607,"date":"2021-08-09T09:19:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2022-03-18T11:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:46:23","slug":"the-silver-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/the-silver-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe id=\"swan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cOGBP-5SxiI\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While we do have swans in the Irondequoit Bay, it would be a dramatic stretch to connect an 18th century automatonic swan to Webster in any way&#8230;.but as its really cool, so we thought we&#8217;d share it here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Created in 1773 by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Joseph_Merlin\" target=\"_blank\">John Joseph Merlin<\/a> (1735\u20131803) and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Cox_(inventor)\" target=\"_blank\">James Cox<\/a> (1723\u20131800), the silver swan has been located at the Bowes Museum in Teesdale, England since 1892. When an internal clockwork mechanism is wound, a music box plays, glass rods rotate giving the illusion of flowing water, and the silver swan turns its head from side to side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large autoheight\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/swan_merlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/swan_merlin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/swan_merlin.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/swan_merlin-600x293.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/swan_merlin-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/swan_merlin-768x375.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/swan_merlin-500x244.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/swan_merlin-800x390.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Silver Swan | John Merlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ilPlVRoUl_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hermitage Peacock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we do have swans in the Irondequoit Bay, it would be a dramatic stretch to connect an 18th century automatonic swan to Webster in any way&#8230;.but as its really cool, so we thought we&#8217;d share it here. Created in 1773 by John Joseph Merlin (1735\u20131803) and James Cox (1723\u20131800), the silver swan has been located at the Bowes Museum in Teesdale, England since 1892. When an internal clockwork mechanism is wound, a music box plays, glass rods rotate giving the illusion of flowing water, and the silver swan turns its head from side to side. More: The Hermitage Peacock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worth-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}