Organization in The Oz Series
Smith & Tinker
Also known as my manufacturers, The firm of Smith & Tinker, my makers, Smith & Tin-ker.
The firm of Smith & Tinker, in the town of Evna where the royal palace stands, wonderful and artistic inventors who built the clock-work mechanical man Tiktok. Both makers are now gone: Mr. Smith, also an artist, painted a river so natural that he fell into it and drowned while reaching across it to paint flowers on the opposite bank; Mr. Tinker made a ladder tall enough to reach the moon, found it so lovely a place that he pulled the ladder up and stayed. Tiktok is the only automatic mechanical man they ever completed.
Appears in 6 chapters, first in chapter 52, last in chapter 64.
What the story establishes
| Member count | Two — the partners Mr. Smith and Mr. Tinker (as of ch. 53) |
| Purpose | Manufactures patented clock-work mechanical men that think, speak, and act, produced at their works at Evna in the Land of Ev. (as of ch. 52) |
| Reputation | Advertises its mechanical men as perfect, patented articles guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years, and threatens legal prosecution of infringements. (as of ch. 52) |
Relationships
- created by ← iron giant ch. 58The iron giant was built by the firm of Smith & Tinker, the same makers who built Tiktok, and was made for the Nome King to guard the path to his underground palace.
- created by ← Tiktok ch. 52Tiktok is a patent clock-work mechanical man built by Smith & Tinker, as declared on the printed maker's card fastened at the back of his neck.
- originated from → Evna ch. 53The firm of Smith & Tinker is based in the town of Evna, where the royal palace stands, and there they built Tiktok.
- member of ← Mr. Smith ch. 53Mr. Smith was one of the two partners of the firm Smith & Tinker; an artist and inventor, he later drowned while painting.
- member of ← Mr. Tinker ch. 53Mr. Tinker was one of the two partners of the firm Smith & Tinker; he made a tall ladder to the moon and, finding it lovely, stayed there.
- creates → Tiktok (ended) ch. 64The firm of Smith & Tinker built the clockwork mechanical man Tiktok.
- trades with ← Evoldo (ended) ch. 52King Evoldo purchased the mechanical man Tiktok from his manufacturers Smith & Tinker.
From the text
Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live.Chapter 52
Manufactured only at our Works at Evna, Land of Ev.Chapter 52
“No; I am the on-ly au-to-mat-ic me-chan-i-cal man they ev-er com-plet-ed,” he replied. “They were ver-y won-der-ful in-ven-tors, were my mak-ers, and quite ar-tis-tic in all they did.”Chapter 53
The firm of Smith & Tin-ker, in the town of Evna, where the roy-al pal-ace standsChapter 53
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