Museu de Física da Universidade de Coimbra

I found this site back in 1998. It is published by the Portugese University of Coimbra's physics museum, and contains photos of the museum's collection of small machines. These machines appear to be demonstration models of primitive engineering and mathematics tools. Some of the crane designs remained static for centuries; if I am not mistaken, many of the models themselves were built in the 18th century. There are several excellent model cranes, devices, and other artifacts.

I researched these engines for a project that would show objects from the barren windswept plateau of Lugubria Major, a graduate-school short story by L.