Volume VI

Heavenly Machines

It was described as an angel because the word for it had not been built yet.

Volume VI is the mechanical volume: automata, orreries, perpetual-motion schemes, telegraphic apparatus, and the long list of devices built to contact something that ended up contacting only their own operators. The Entities here classify as Circuit. They keep time, they carry signal, and they are the only Entities in the archive that can meaningfully be described as switched on.

Records 0506 to 0606. The patent literature is a heavier source here than the occult literature, which is the point.