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| Model of a steam engine by William Murdock, 1784 | 
I ran across a really interesting 
museum collection focusing on industrial machinery in the nineteenth and early twentieth century in France.
They have a gigantic 
model built over twenty years starting in the 1890s that includes 38 automatons and replicates industrial activities throughout the whole plant in Franche-Comte.
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| Francois Bonhomme (1864): Forge in Creusot | 
You can  read a bit about the idea behind this community museum in this 
article in MuseumCommunities.