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Amazing 'toy ship' automaton from 16th Century fires salvos at end of performance

We were at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien today and they had this amazing automaton on display. The video below displays the complex mechanics this atuomaton does while it 'sails' along the tabletop:

For the impatient, who just want to skip to the 'grand finale' at 2:07: