Bill Burns posted an interesting report from Bruce Sterling's Dead Media
mail list.

The report quotes...

"In a technical analysis of the instrument, Henry Willis
speculated that 'the intended method of use...' Because the design and
materials suggest a European rather than an Indian maker, Willis
suggested that the tiger and its victim were constructed by either a
malicious Frenchman or a renegade Englishman."

I remember my father, Henry Willis, 4,  telling me that he had carried out
some restoration work on this artefact some years ago.

I wonder which Henry Willis the above remarks are attributed to - It would
be remarkable if it was Father Henry Willis, my great great grandfather.

Does anyone know?

> As far as I know, the tiger is still in London's V & A museum, although
> I suspect visitors are no longer allowed to make it perform.

I was at the V&A about 5 years ago and it was in a glass case!

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