India: Tipu Sultan's mechanical tiger mauling a British soldier, Mysore, c. 1790. Photo by Victoria and Albert Museum (CC BY-SA License). Tipu's Tiger belonged to Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore (r. 1782-1799). The almost life-size wooden automaton represents a tiger mauling a prostrate figure in European clothes. There is an organ inside the tiger's body. When a handle is turned, the organ plays and the victim's arm rises and falls. The tiger was taken by the British from the palace at Mysore after the Siege of Seringapatam in 1799.

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