#automat — Public Fediverse posts
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"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.
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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
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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.”
#automat #breakDown #BryanMacomber #cafeteria #culture #dataVisualization #engineering #fastFood #FrankHardart #history #HornAndHardart #JoeHorn #mechanicalEngineering #mechanicalPencil #restaurant #tearDown -
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.
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Wie wird ein #Bezug der #Beziehungen zwischen #Verwirrung, #Ärger, #Überraschung und #Verwunderung #sozial #konstruiert?
Das #automatisierte #Antwortverhalten führt im #Unterschied zum nicht automatisierten #Antwortverhalten zu #Ärger als #Unterscheidung von #Verwunderung. #Verwirrung ist der #Moment, in dem sich die #Bewertung über #Ärger oder #Verwunderung entscheidet. #Überraschung ist, wenn der #Anschluss von #Kommunikation an #Verwunderung #gelingt.