Many battery-operated toys during "the Golden Age of Toys" modeled their  design and actions after real life to bring an immediate recognition and affinity with the toy to raise sales numbers.  What our museum loves about this is how battery-operated toys give us a window into daily life 40, 50, 60+ years into the past.  While other toys also reflect their period, because battery-operated toys focused on "automated actions" reflecting real-life activities we believe many additional insights to the time of manufacturing are possible.

Bunny the Busy Secretary actions include 1. doing math problems, 2.  phone rings (bell), 3.  picks up phone handset to ear, and 4.  EYES LIGHT UP.  After finishing the call the handset is returned to the reciever and the adding machine actions starts again.