Jules Vernes meets Leonardo da Vinci in Nantes.
There are no words to describe this contraption, the star of Nantes’s famous “Machines.” On an island bordered by the Loire river, art meets technology, and no one, adults or children, is complaining!
More information on this 20-year old project, still in the making here:
As a side note, the elephant’s “floppy” ears are made of leather! He can also blink and has the longest eyelashes. 🙂
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