It looks so pleased with itself!

How could this simple nation of floral arrangers and courtly musicians ever become such a threat to world peace?

Stars for the 3d animation that shows how the individual parts work.

Very complex and impressive.

There's a guy in California who has successfully replicated The Turk (legendary automata that played master-level chess; beat Benjamin Franklin and caught Napoleon cheating), but he refuses to tell anybody how it works and says he'll have it burnt when he dies.

Siege engines this small, this slow, this brittle and no doubt this expensive would be any use of the battlefield. What you gain in portability you loose in rate of fire and power.