The Queen's Doll's House
A detailed dollhouse, The Queen's Doll's House, gifted to Queen Mary in 1924, features intricate details like working elevators, electricity, and a stocked wine cellar. Engineer Mervyn O'Gorman's essay explores the dollhouse's scale implications and the allure of miniatures, reflecting on life's impermanence.
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The article discusses the discovery of a detailed dollhouse presented to Queen Mary of England in 1924, known as The Queen's Doll's House. The dollhouse is an intricate creation with working elevators, electricity, and even a basement livery filled with royal vehicles. It features real amenities like running water, a stocked wine cellar, and miniature versions of products from major English firms. The article delves into an essay by engineer Mervyn O'Gorman, exploring the implications of scale on the dollhouse's world, imagining the inhabitants, dubbed "Dollomites," with extraordinary abilities and challenges due to their size. The piece reflects on the allure of miniatures, highlighting how dollhouses encapsulate a simulated order and offer a glimpse into a complete world that cannot truly be inhabited. The author also mentions recent interests, including lucid dreaming, plant behavior research, and historical insights into technology design. The narrative concludes with a reflection on the impermanence of life and the evolving nature of existence.
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10 commentsRailway modelers (and probably ship modelers before them) were in this domain before that. Real water doesn't look right on a model layout. Also things like the practical dimensions of the rails and the speed at which things move. The scaling of the physics is important for a live steam model, as it affects the operation as well as the physics.
Apart from that, scale models were a primary engineering tool before the advent of computer simulation [1]. Models are still used for training ship pilots [2], and these models must account for how physical properties scale.
[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97834336096... [2] https://www.portash.com.au/
I suppose it's the same reason I love Miniland at Legoland. Huge miniature worlds so meticulously crafted. It boggles the mind.
[0]: https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/colle... [1]: https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/colle...
What? They’re sets for telling stories with. Barbie dumped Ken for Skipper, and then Darty Vader moved in when his spaceship crashed. Now the Smurfs and the Ponies are besieging the dollhouse along with the Warhammer elves your brother started painting. Can Darty’s Force powers save the day?
Good short video there.
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/How_Watson_Lear...
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