“Fig. 31: Technical details of the group of dancing Bacchantes.”

If this caption piques your interest, you might consider finding a copy of the excellent book “Automata: A Historical and Technological Study” by Alfred Chapuis and Edmond Droz. Other chestnuts include “Fig. 166: Death preventing the corpse from leaving his coffin,” “Fig. 284: Pipes, cog-wheels and buffers making the cock crow,” “Fig. 322: The hot-air mechanism of the trapeze girl,” and “Fig. 404: Device for pronouncing vowels, made by von Kempelen.” von Kempelen, I kid you not. This is like steampunk, but real!