The Morse Lecture | Designing the Sublime: Mechanism, Risk, and Wonder
Channel: Cooper Hewitt
Date: 2019-05-29

World-renowned antiquarian horologist Brittany Nicole Cox exploresthe diverse utilization of the machine in design through a selectionof objects drawn from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and otherSmithsonian museums. Examples range from a nineteenth-centurysinging bird box to the world’s first tuning fork watch. Cox makes metaphysical and material connections among fascinating time-keeping machines and engineered mechanisms that were designed to produce illusion, animation, decoration, destruction, and more.

The Enid and Lester Morse Historic Design Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse, Jr.