Automated Collection

Docklands Light Railway
A driverless train of the automated Docklands Light Railway at Island Gardens station in 1987, the year that it opened. Date: 1987

Automat Dining Room - Broadway, New York, USA
Automat Dining Room - 1557 Broadway, New York, USA. Horn & Hardart was a food services company of the USA noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia and New York City

Exterior - Automat Dining Room, Times Square, New York, USA
The exterior of the Automat Dining Room - Times Square branch, New York, USA. Horn & Hardart was a food services company of the USA noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia

The Improved Ladys Own Sewing Machine by Leigh & Crawford, Brooke Street, Holborn, London EC. 19th century

Leduc 0. 21 01, mounted on a S. E. 161
Leduc 0.21 01, mounted on its SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc mother-ship, parked next door to the second 0.21, also mounted on a Languedoc mother-ship

Cape Reinga lighthouse, North Island, New Zealand
View of the lighthouse at Cape Reinga, at the far northern end of the North Island, New Zealand. The lighthouse was built in 1941

Singer sewing machine. 1897

Laundry service, Sidi Amor Ben Salem, Tunisia, North Africa
Automated laundry service buildings, Sidi Amor Ben Salem, Tunisia, North Africa. Date: circa 1910

Mailomat coin-operated mailbox, USA, for people who have letters to post but no stamps, made by Pitney-Bowes. Date: 1940s

Card shuffler, illustration by William Heath Robinson
The new card shuffler and mechanical dealer for bridge parties, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

AUTOMATION
By the year 2000, factory workers will be no more than machine minders, controlling automated machines Date: 1911

Sun Motors car wash, St Petersburg, Florida, USA, offering a complete auto wash in three minutes for one dollar 25 cents. Date: circa 1940s

Chimes
An automated musical instrument that chimes, somewhat similar to those used in miniature in musical boxes. See picture 10809687 for a similar chiming machine in action

Warner and sons patent chiming machine
Messers J. Warner and sons patent chiming machine, by which a lad entirely unaccustomed to music may chime a whole peal.See picture 10837677 for a close up of a similar chiming machine

Traffic control for pedestrian crossings
Traffic control by light-ray : the first system of its kind. A new method of controlling road traffic by beams of light broken by pedestrian and vehicles

Musical box by Nicoles Freres
Music boxes by Regina and Polyphon. Also pictured is an Edison phonograph. Date: c.1900

Guinness Clock at Battersea Festival Pleasure Garden
The Guinness Clock at Battersea Festival Pleasure Gardens - one of the famous attractions of the Festival of Britain, London, England. Date: 1951

Musical box
The aurephone-a patented musical instument that makes an ideal Christmas or New Year gift. Available for John G. Murdoch and Co. Ltd. Date: 1883

Cape Egmont lighthouse, North Island, New Zealand
Cape Egmont lighthouse, with Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) in the background, on the west coast of North Island, New Zealand

Muller Automatic Cone-winding machine
A factory worker operates a Muller automatic cone-winding machine, (used for clearing and winding single-spun yarns) at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Factory control board
Technicians, wearing ear pieces, keep close watch on a factory control board, ensuring systems run correctly, power supply levels remain constant and automated processes operate correctly

Muller Automatic Cone-winder
A factory worker operates a Muller automatic cone-winding machine, (used for clearing and winding single-spun yarns) at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Rail Ticket Machine
A ticket machine for the automated booking of 3d tickets in a London underground station, probably Holloway Road

Rail Ticket Machine / 1928
A man buying a ticket from a ticket machine in an unknown London underground station

Automated Automobile
One day your car may speed along an electric super- highway, its speed and steering automatically controlled by electronic devices embedded in the road

MOOREs STEAM MAN C1890
The Steam Man automaton of Canadian Professor George Moore, which has an internal engine allowing it to walk, and vent steam through a well placed cigar!

Futuristic poultry farming
An example of futuristic poultry farming, using a machine with various controls, and smoke coming out of a little chimney

Futuristic building site
A futuristic building site, on which all the work is done by machinery. The architect simply sits in a box and operates the controls

Futuristic farming
An example of futuristic farming, the automated way. The farmer sits on a chair and operates the controls, while machinery does the harvesting

Futuristic automatic orchestra
A futuristic automated orchestra -- musicians will become redundant, apart from the conductor who just has to turn a handle. At least the actors haven t been replaced... yet

Futuristic automated kitchen
A futuristic automated kitchen, where machines do most of the work

Futuristic floor polishing machine
A maid operates a futuristic automated electric floor polishing machine -- housework made easy

Futuristic automated tailoring establishment
A futuristic automated tailoring establishment, where the equipment does all (or most of) the work

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