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Honking Big Machine

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Honking. Big. Machine.

They don’t do anything really.
HBM’s are something of a spectacle sport that the builders of New Babbage engage in when they are supposed to be cleaning and maintaining their machines during the annual factory shutdown known as the Oiling Festival.

Images from 2009

A physical machine put in motion with a push

Urchin Washer by Annechen Lowey

DreddPirateBob Streeter’s death phonograph (picture lost)

A Hero engine

Elfod Nemeth’s Lava Clock

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