Firemen Foil Macline
LwM h.v, tern o. .< -Wfi* for many a day came;to a<tanp and somewhat unartistlc end, says the New Yorit correspondent of the "Daffy Telegraph.” Built by Jean Tinguely, a Swiss, .it was, in short, a aelfdestroying machine. The contraptibn, 23ft by 27ft, was intended as a jibe at man’s increasing dependence on the machine. Built from scrap iron, 80 wheels, bottles, a bathtub and a piano in the garden of the Museum of Modem Art, it was started up before an invited audience. But something went wrong. After some gurglings and grumblings only .part of the machine began to destroy itself. City firemen considered the flames were get }’ n B out of hand and promptly StoiuA wceU ‘" w " h
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29178, 12 April 1960, Page 13
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