Heureka 1963 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heureka_(Plastik)#/media/File:Z%C3%BCrich_-_Seefeld_-_Heureka_IMG_0055.JPG Jean Tinguely's first publicly exhibited work, titled “Heureka”, is an excellent example of the "do-nothing machine" approach to kinetic sculpture, with oscillating, revolving, and reciprocating components pushing and pulling on one another in a complex rhythm. This embodies the spirit of machinery, in that often the intention and function of real machinery is obscured by its complex physical configuration. Various components of machinery are used in this assembly, mostly wheels and pulleys, that link to each other with belts and mechanical shafts supported in bearings. The various mechanisms are supported on a frame composed of structural steel beams, rods, and sections of railway track. Interlacing of supporting struts and various moving components references many industrial structures such as oil pumps, large engines, or gantry cranes...