While many people feared their jobs would be replaced by robots, there was a resounding belief that mechanization would usher in a utopia free from the drudgery of manual labor. Artists enamored by the stark, sterile beauty of machinery, gave rise to a little known but pervasive art movement called Precisionism.

The visually mesmerizing, and wind-driven kinetic sculptures dubbed Strandbeests ‘infest’ the Exploratorium