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The first automat at 13 Leipziger Straße in Berlin, Germany [1] [2]) A food ticket machine in Japan in 2022. An automat is a type of fast-food restaurant where food and drink are served through a vending machine, typically without waitstaff. The world's first automat, Quisisana, opened in Berlin, Germany in 1895. [3] [4]
Quisisana was a German company that introduced the world's first automat restaurant in June 1895 on the grounds of the Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany. [1] The establishment was considered a success, selling 5,400 sandwiches, 9,000 glasses of wine and cordials, and 22,000 cups of coffee on the first Sunday of business. [ 2 ]
Quizlet made its first acquisition in March 2021, with the purchase of Slader, which offered detailed explanations of textbook concepts and practice problems, and eventually incorporated it into its paid platform, Quizlet Plus. [20] [21] [22] In November 2022, Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer, the former CEO of Starship Technologies. [23]
This example of automation dates back to the Japanese economic miracle; the first of Yoshiaki's conveyor belt sushi restaurants was opened under the name Mawaru Genroku Sushi in 1958, in Osaka. [2] In the early 1970s a number of restaurants served food solely through vending machines. These restaurants were called automats or, in Japan ...
In what is the first documented description of how a mechanical cuckoo works, a mechanical organ with several automated figures is described. [53] In 18th-century Germany, clockmakers began making cuckoo clocks for sale. [46] Clock shops selling cuckoo clocks became commonplace in the Black Forest region by the middle of the 18th century. [54]
The first commercially successful glass bottle-blowing machine was an automatic model introduced in 1905. [40] The machine, operated by a two-man crew working 12-hour shifts, could produce 17,280 bottles in 24 hours, compared to 2,880 bottles made by a crew of six men and boys working in a shop for a day.
The first North American automatic train stop system for the Boston Elevated Railway was introduced in 1901 by Union Switch and Signal Company. [2] The first unmanned driving test on rail tracks was conducted in Berlin, Germany, in 1928 near the Krumme Lanke station. [3]
automat August 1892 [a] n/a: Eden Musée, five machines installed United States (New York City, 23rd Street) automat August 1892 [a] n/a: Koster and Bial's Music Hall, one machine installed United States (New York City, 34th Street and Broadway) automat August 1892 [a] n/a: Am. Inst. Dur. Prdkts, twelve machines installed United States (New ...