The 33 year old was inspired to build his machine after visiting a museum with mechanical instruments in utrecht netherlands.
Marble machine subculture.
Marble machines are complicated but useless pieces of toy machinery that automate the process of playing with marbles.
9 32 inch stainless steel ball.
After stumbling across the existing marble machine subculture molin set aside a couple of months to build his own music machine.
The program premiered on nbc on july 7 1975 at 12 00 pm et replacing the short lived game show blank check.
Art james served as host and johnny gilbert was the announcer.
100mm x 100mm base.
Molin previously told wired the project was directly inspired by the existing marble machine subculture i stumbled over the marble machine culture it s a whole subculture and was always.
In the end it took two years beginning with 3d software designs.
Merrill heatter and bob quigley packaged the program with robert noah as executive producer.
The marble machine is versatile.
The magnificent marble machine was an american television game show that featured a giant pinball machine as its centerpiece.