#automat — Public Fediverse posts

Keep your automated dystopia. I'll work on a rough-hewn utopia.

#typedThoughts #typedPage #trypewriter #driverlessCars #jayDrivers #typing #typewriter #automat #dystopia #utopia

Keep your automated dystopia. I'll work on a rough-hewn utopia.

#typedThoughts #typedPage #trypewriter #driverlessCars #jayDrivers #typing #typewriter #automat #dystopia #utopia

“Science explains how things work, it doesn’t always answer why they exist”*…

Still, it’s cool to know how things work. In a continuing series of “tear-downs,” Bryan Macomber obliges in the most elegant of ways…

Are you curious why a clicky Pen… clicks? How a Zippo Lighter flips open? Or what lives inside a Pez Dispenser?

I’ve illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products that you may have taken for granted. Let’s take a look inside and understand how they work. Click around, have fun and maybe learn something new!…

An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us: “Mechanical Pencil.”

* (Paraphrase of) Isaac Newton

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As we muse on the mechanical, we might recall that it was on this date (according to most sources, though a few cite the 12th or the 19th of June) in 1902 that Philadelphia restauranteurs Frank Hardart and Joe Horn opened the first Automat in the U.S. A cavernous, waiterless establishment that was a combination of fast (but fresh) food, vending, and a cafeteria. Customers put nickels into slots beside small glass-doored compartments in the Automats and turned a knob. In the compartment next to the slot, food revolved into place for the customer to receive through the glass door.

Horn & Hardart Automats expanded into a chain reaching Manhattan in 1912. With their uniform recipes and centralized commissary system of supplying their restaurants, the Automats were America’s first major fast-food chain.

For more on how they worked, see “Meet Me at the Automat” and the charming documentary “The Automat.”

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“Science explains how things work, it doesn’t always answer why they exist”*…

Still, it’s cool to know how things work. In a continuing series of “tear-downs,” Bryan Macomber obliges in the most elegant of ways…

Are you curious why a clicky Pen… clicks? How a Zippo Lighter flips open? Or what lives inside a Pez Dispenser?

I’ve illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products that you may have taken for granted. Let’s take a look inside and understand how they work. Click around, have fun and maybe learn something new!…

An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us: “Mechanical Pencil.”

* (Paraphrase of) Isaac Newton

###

As we muse on the mechanical, we might recall that it was on this date (according to most sources, though a few cite the 12th or the 19th of June) in 1902 that Philadelphia restauranteurs Frank Hardart and Joe Horn opened the first Automat in the U.S. A cavernous, waiterless establishment that was a combination of fast (but fresh) food, vending, and a cafeteria. Customers put nickels into slots beside small glass-doored compartments in the Automats and turned a knob. In the compartment next to the slot, food revolved into place for the customer to receive through the glass door.

Horn & Hardart Automats expanded into a chain reaching Manhattan in 1912. With their uniform recipes and centralized commissary system of supplying their restaurants, the Automats were America’s first major fast-food chain.

For more on how they worked, see “Meet Me at the Automat” and the charming documentary “The Automat.”

source

source

Automat Vol 2 #kaugummiautomat #kaugummi #automat #photography #photographie #art #artwork #sixties #seventies #straelen #nrw

Automat Vol 2 #kaugummiautomat #kaugummi #automat #photography #photographie #art #artwork #sixties #seventies #straelen #nrw

Automat #kaugummiautomat #kaugummi #automat #photography #photographie #art #artwork #sixties #seventies

Automat #kaugummiautomat #kaugummi #automat #photography #photographie #art #artwork #sixties #seventies

Habt Ihr schon einmal auf einer Mailbox den Ansagetext gehört:
"Hallo, wenn Sie Ihren Namen und den Grund Ihres Anrufs hinterlassen, sehe ich nach, ob diese Person verfügbar ist."

Fand ich so seltsam, dass ich keine Lust hatte etwas draufzusprechen ...

#Mailbox #Automat

Habt Ihr schon einmal auf einer Mailbox den Ansagetext gehört:
"Hallo, wenn Sie Ihren Namen und den Grund Ihres Anrufs hinterlassen, sehe ich nach, ob diese Person verfügbar ist."

Fand ich so seltsam, dass ich keine Lust hatte etwas draufzusprechen ...

#Mailbox #Automat

The Horn & Hardart chain of ‘automat’ diners ceased to exist 35 years ago, yet this remnant of their advertising past clings on in Manhattan.

untapped new york has the full story: https://www.untappedcities.com/spot-a-ghost-sign-for-nycs-lost-automat/.

Photo: Robyn Roth-Moise.

Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7ani3SRFUgm2pVb68

#Ghostsigns #Manhattan #NewYork #Automat #Cafeteria

The Horn & Hardart chain of ‘automat’ diners ceased to exist 35 years ago, yet this remnant of their advertising past clings on in Manhattan.

untapped new york has the full story: https://www.untappedcities.com/spot-a-ghost-sign-for-nycs-lost-automat/.

Photo: Robyn Roth-Moise.

Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7ani3SRFUgm2pVb68

#Ghostsigns #Manhattan #NewYork #Automat #Cafeteria

#Automat #derheiko #kratzen #münzen Münzen reiben Durch die digitalen Zahlarten kommt es bei mir nur noch kaum vor, dass ich Münzen in einen Automaten stecken muss. Ich stand in der Straßenbahn…
Weiterlesen https://www.derheiko.com/muenzen-reiben/

"Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee" is a song by #IrvingBerlin appearing in the #musicalComedy #FaceTheMusic, which opened in 1932. On opening night it was sung by #JHaroldMurray and Katherine Carrington. The song, set in a self-service restaurant modeled on the #HornAndHardart #Automat, is sung in the play by a group of once-wealthy citizens who were awaiting better times, as mirrored in the song's opening lyrics: Just around the corner, there's a rainbow in the sky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1P46mb_dM

"Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee" is a song by #IrvingBerlin appearing in the #musicalComedy #FaceTheMusic, which opened in 1932. On opening night it was sung by #JHaroldMurray and Katherine Carrington. The song, set in a self-service restaurant modeled on the #HornAndHardart #Automat, is sung in the play by a group of once-wealthy citizens who were awaiting better times, as mirrored in the song's opening lyrics: Just around the corner, there's a rainbow in the sky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1P46mb_dM

2 fresh 1960s magazine scans for you from two very different magazines, but filled with some great images.
Computopia 1968-02
Canadian Vending Magazine 1961-05
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/11/scans-computopia-1968-02-canadian.html
#retroarcade #computopia #automat

2 fresh 1960s magazine scans for you from two very different magazines, but filled with some great images.
Computopia 1968-02
Canadian Vending Magazine 1961-05
https://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2025/11/scans-computopia-1968-02-canadian.html
#retroarcade #computopia #automat

#Automaten.

#Automat #Kinderspielzeug #Plastik #Müll #bunt #Dezember #2024 #Dezember2024 #Siegburg

#Kentmere #Kentmere400 @ ISO 800 #Pushentwicklung #Minolta #Dynax7xi #MinoltaDynax7xi #MinoltaAF50mmf17 Minolta AF 50mm 1:1.7 (22) @ 1/200s f/4 #Microphen #Stock #MicrophenStock No. 4 12:00+30%=15:30 Min. #35mm #Film #Filmfotografie #Analogfotografie #SchwarzWeiß #Schwarzweißfotografie #FilmIsNotDead

https://www.alojapan.com/1399828/bento-lunch-box-vending-machine-and-conger-eel-bento/ Bento Lunch Box Vending Machine and Conger Eel Bento #asmr #automat #bento #BoxLunch #CongerEel #eating #eel #ekiben #Enoden #Japan #JapaneseStuffChannel #japanesestuff #JapaneseStuffChannel #jsc #nerd #Osaka #train #VendingMachine #Weird #あなごめし #大阪駅 #弁当 #弁当自販機 #自販機 #駅弁 #駅弁自販機 Bento Lunch Box Vending Machine and Conger Eel Bento Ekiben vending machine Conger Eel Bento simmered conger eel sweet-savory delicious seasoned rice with egg chopped c

Netzfund:
Ein Wildflower- Bombs-Automat! Wie cool ist das bitte?
#wildflowerbombs #Automat #Guerrilliagardening #solarpunk

https://medium.com/@mateod.kaiser/building-a-wildflower-seed-bomb-machine-402e9a1045c3

https://song.link/i/1569870716
#souldja #reapwhatwesow

#praha #cyklojizda #mobility #mobilita #mikromobilita #micromobility #bike #cycling #urbancycling #urbanism #automat #climate #ecology #czech #magistrala #nuselak #timelapse #video #mikroblog

#praha #cyklojizda #mobility #mobilita #mikromobilita #micromobility #bike #cycling #urbancycling #urbanism #automat #climate #ecology #czech #magistrala #nuselak #timelapse #video #mikroblog

Prahou projela Světová cyklojízda s drzou účastí mého ekofuturistického vehiklu, který není ani kolem, ani mopedem (1/2)

Omlouvám se za chybějící popisky k obrázkům, shrnují je hashtagy.

#praha #cyklojizda #mobility #mobilita #mikromobilita #micromobility #solarbike #solarpunk #bike #cycling #urbancycling #automat #climate #ecology #czech #magistrala #nuselak

Prahou projela Světová cyklojízda s drzou účastí mého ekofuturistického vehiklu, který není ani kolem, ani mopedem (1/2)

Omlouvám se za chybějící popisky k obrázkům, shrnují je hashtagy.

#praha #cyklojizda #mobility #mobilita #mikromobilita #micromobility #solarbike #solarpunk #bike #cycling #urbancycling #automat #climate #ecology #czech #magistrala #nuselak

Heute habe ich gratis #Menstruation -shygiene-Artikel in einem Automat in der #Damentoilette, im #EKZ #Ruhrpark, in #bochum gesehen. (An der Futter-Meile)

Finde ich gut!
Gibt es so nen #Automat auch in dem Bereich für männlich gelesene Personen? (Das fände ich wirklich zeitgemäß.)

Als #FotoVorschlag zum heutigen Thema "Konsum"

Ein Greifautomat in einem der zahlreichen skurrilen Shops der "Electric Town" Akihabara in Tokyo.

#japan #tokyo #akihabara #fotografie #photography #Photographie #foto #konsum #automat #toy #toys #plush

Was es nicht alles gibt. Die magische Show habe ich mir erspart.
#zuckerwatte #automat #roboter
@altbot

Was es nicht alles gibt. Die magische Show habe ich mir erspart.
#zuckerwatte #automat #roboter
@altbot

Nach Sprengungen von Fahrkartenautomaten - MRB will Schutz verbessern

#Automat #Fahrkartenautomat #MRB #MitteldeutscheRegiobahn #Sachsen #Schutz #Sprengung #Ticket #Transdev

https://bahnblogstelle.com/225698/nach-sprengungen-von-fahrkartenautomaten-mrb-will-schutz-verbessern/

Nach Sprengungen von Fahrkartenautomaten - MRB will Schutz verbessern

#Automat #Fahrkartenautomat #MRB #MitteldeutscheRegiobahn #Sachsen #Schutz #Sprengung #Ticket #Transdev

https://bahnblogstelle.com/225698/nach-sprengungen-von-fahrkartenautomaten-mrb-will-schutz-verbessern/

Legendärer #Automat: Ein Bluff und doch ein Meisterwerk: Wie das Geheimnis des #Schachtürke​n gelüftet wurde

https://www.geo.de/wissen/das-geheimnis-des-schachtuerken-30180348.html

Die Parallele zum aktuellen #AI-Hype ist unverkennbar. 🙄

PS: Im #HNF in #Paderborn gibt es überigens eine Rekonstruktion des Automaten, die im GEO-Artikel leider nicht erwähnt wird: https://www.hnf.de/dauerausstellung/ausstellungsbereiche/die-mechanisierung-der-informationstechnik/fruehe-automaten-faszination-schachtuerke/schachtuerke-wieder-zum-leben-erweckt.html

#Schach #WolfgangVonKempelen

Legendärer #Automat: Ein Bluff und doch ein Meisterwerk: Wie das Geheimnis des #Schachtürke​n gelüftet wurde

https://www.geo.de/wissen/das-geheimnis-des-schachtuerken-30180348.html

Die Parallele zum aktuellen #AI-Hype ist unverkennbar. 🙄

PS: Im #HNF in #Paderborn gibt es überigens eine Rekonstruktion des Automaten, die im GEO-Artikel leider nicht erwähnt wird: https://www.hnf.de/dauerausstellung/ausstellungsbereiche/die-mechanisierung-der-informationstechnik/fruehe-automaten-faszination-schachtuerke/schachtuerke-wieder-zum-leben-erweckt.html

#Schach #WolfgangVonKempelen

@FotoVorschlag: #FotoVorschlag #Automat​en, hier ein #GelatoMat.

#KurioseAutomaten

@FotoVorschlag: #FotoVorschlag #Automat​en, hier ein #GelatoMat.

#KurioseAutomaten

The #Automat was long gone by the time I was cognizant of the world but how I miss it. Please, bring it back, and in the right way. Make it coin, bill, and card-operated but fuck off with the apps. I don't want "DoorDash but with lockers." I want to look at pre-made food, choose some plates, and have a meal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

The #Automat was long gone by the time I was cognizant of the world but how I miss it. Please, bring it back, and in the right way. Make it coin, bill, and card-operated but fuck off with the apps. I don't want "DoorDash but with lockers." I want to look at pre-made food, choose some plates, and have a meal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

In einem Supermarkt in Unna Massen steht seit neustem ein sogenannter "Secret-Pack"-Automat. Einer der Ersten in NRW.

In einem Supermarkt in Unna Massen steht seit neustem ein sogenannter " Secret-Pack "-Automat. Einer der Ersten in NRW.#29072024 #Regio-Beitrag #Ruhrgebiet #Unna #Automat #Pakete #DHL #Überraschung #Post #Rückläufer #Kunden #Supermarkt #Secret-Pack-Automat
Überraschungspakete aus dem Automaten in Unna

In einem Supermarkt in Unna Massen steht seit neustem ein sogenannter "Secret-Pack"-Automat. Einer der Ersten in NRW.

In einem Supermarkt in Unna Massen steht seit neustem ein sogenannter " Secret-Pack "-Automat. Einer der Ersten in NRW.#29072024 #Regio-Beitrag #Ruhrgebiet #Unna #Automat #Pakete #DHL #Überraschung #Post #Rückläufer #Kunden #Supermarkt #Secret-Pack-Automat
Überraschungspakete aus dem Automaten in Unna

Week-end soundtrack
#TheBlackDog #MiguelAGarcía & #ÀlexReviriego #Mondkopf #Celer #Microcorps #IsobelCampbell #Automat #Kosmose #µZiq #Mono #Oval #WillGregoryMoogEnsemble #JohnCale #TheImpressions #Immersion #JerryGarciaBand

@DieterKomendera @dasgrueneblatt Soeben gelesen, dass es bereits im Jahr 1898 (!) anlässlich eines Festes einen Leihrad-Automaten gab 😀 https://magazin.wienmuseum.at/wiens-erste-verkaufsautomaten

#leihrad #fahrrad #automat

@GeekSusie

Imagine nearly a hundred years ago being able to go into a place where for a few coins you could get a plate of reasonably fresh food from behind a glass door, sit down and eat it, and never once need to interact with another human being, smile, or say "please" or "thank you".

That was "the roaring twenties", which preceded "the great depression".

Hmm.

#automat

Fahrkartenautomat an S-Bahnhof nahe Nürnberg gesprengt

Foto: Symbolbild

#Fahrkartenautomat #Ticket #Automat #Bahnhof #Büchenbach #Nürnberg

https://bahnblogstelle.com/214233/fahrkartenautomat-an-s-bahnhof-nahe-nuernberg-gesprengt/

#Deutschland #Saarland #Saarbrücken #Automat

#Snackautomaten #Lebensmittel #Drinks #Vapes

Snackautomaten erobern das Saarland:

https://www.sr.de/sr/home/nachrichten/panorama/snackautomaten_trend_saarland_100.html

Automated convenience store concept. 2 of 3

#Cashless #Automat #NobodyToRob #ArtDeco #BringItBack #AlsoBarService #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething

#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion