An Ancient Archimedes Device Powers this Graceful Spinning Lego Penguin

No one ’s going to misidentify this cartoony penguin for the literal thing , but it ’s theclever engineeringby the Lego master copy atJK Brickworks — not its realism — that makes this creation a must - see both inside and out .

As the fiddling penguin spins in rotary on the tricky iceberg , inside it ’s powered by a gimmick called theTrammel of Archimedesthat ’s often accredit to the greatGreek mathematician , physicist , and inventor . The equipment comprise of two sliding bird run vertical to each other that are connected at fixed by distributor point by a cross - beam .

The lead apparent movement of the two shuttles slide back and away is a perfect elliptical path traced by the cross - beam , and that ’s where the little Lego penguin remain perch as it slither around in circuit . After over 2,000 years , we finally have a dear economic consumption for one of Archimedes creations . [ JK Brickworks ]