国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 4月10日 19時48分

It’s okay if you find this doll a little bit creepy—its name is “Natural Creeping Baby Doll.” George Pemberton Clark received a U.S. patent in August 1871 for this doll—you can still see the original patent office tag attached with red tape. The doll’s limbs are attached to a clockwork body that moves the arms and legs to imitate crawling. However, the doll is actually moving forward on two wheels. ⚙️ Clark’s model was an improvement on a similar doll patented by Robert J. Clay. By the early 1900s, dolls like this were commercially available. ?
What’s groundbreaking about the toy isn’t its mechanics, but what it represents about childhood. Prior to the 1870s, Anglo-American parents believed crawling like an animal was a bad habit, even for babies. But in the 1870s, parents began to accept crawling (aka “creeping”) as a natural stage of development. But, even in 1871, a mechanical toy like this was part of a long history of mechanics built to imitate human life.
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