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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]
Horn & Hardart, founded in 1888 by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart, was noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia and New York City. The restaurant chain was well known in the U.S. for serving food out of a vending machine for a nickel. The last New York Horn & Hardart Automat closed in April 1991.
Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist. Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator. [2]
It was the world's first cure for a disease (1891). [3] He was awarded history's first Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine in 1901. Melitta Bentz: Inventor of the coffee filter, 1908. Karl Benz: Father and inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile, 1885, and pioneering founder of automobile manufacturing.
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]
From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a newly founded Christian-democratic party, which became the dominant force in the country under his leadership. As a devout Catholic , Adenauer was a leading politician of the Catholic Centre Party in the Weimar Republic , serving as Mayor of Cologne (1917 ...
Miele (/ ˈ m iː l ə / MEE-lə; German:) is a German manufacturer of high-end domestic appliances and commercial equipment, headquartered in Gütersloh, Ostwestfalen-Lippe.The company was founded in 1899 by Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann, and has always been a family-owned and family-run company. [2]