Competitors plant a pair of large poles in the ground, suspend one cage from each at eye-level, then let the caged birds sing. “Normally the way it works is, you put the birds face-to-face ...

Jaquet-Droz was also the first to build singing mechanical birds (often in hanging cages or boxes), which caught the eye of European high society. On display as part of this exhibition are 24 ...

The bird's chirping sounds were created by a tiny pair of leather bellows and the movement was produced by a clockwork mechanism in the base. The cages were ... century caged singing bird can ...