Automatons
Aug. 16th, 2012 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithI can't really get into the steampunk thing, which is curious with how much I love the technology from that era. Or maybe that's why. Why bother with imagings when the real thing is so cool. As I seem to have a number of pictures and related material of Victorian and Edwardian/WWI technology, I thought I'd share a bit.
To start with, some chocolate-dispensing automatons. This leaflet (showing both sides at once) dates from c. 1890.
WAAREN-AUTOMAT "HENNE" & WALD-IDYLL
Forest idyll automaton
for confect sale
best filled bonbonniere.
After having dropped the coin in the mouth of the first frog, an pulls the handle,
the cuckoo is calling, and the frog croaking and handling? a bonbonniere in a magnificent manner.
The apparatus shows a trunk of a tree, made of metal on which are placed two frogs,
a cuckoo and a salamander and which takes up 130 boxes.
These boxes can be printed with firms for extra calculation.
When ordering the coin to be used must be mentioned.
Automaton "eggs laying hen".
After dropping the coin in the slot, the hen begins to crow and lays an Metal-egg
filled up with chocolate.
The coloured case is very solid make of metal.
Full guarantee right treatment supposed.
When ordering the coin to be used must be mentioned.
This auction has photos of a similar hen from the same manufacturer (including a photo of the internal workings).
A accompanying the leaflet said the sender had checked out one of the hens in Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne. The Melbourne Museum now has one of the Cole's hens on display (different manufacturer, I think) in their Cole's Book Arcade exhibit.
To start with, some chocolate-dispensing automatons. This leaflet (showing both sides at once) dates from c. 1890.
for confect sale
best filled bonbonniere.
After having dropped the coin in the mouth of the first frog, an pulls the handle,
the cuckoo is calling, and the frog croaking and handling? a bonbonniere in a magnificent manner.
The apparatus shows a trunk of a tree, made of metal on which are placed two frogs,
a cuckoo and a salamander and which takes up 130 boxes.
These boxes can be printed with firms for extra calculation.
When ordering the coin to be used must be mentioned.
After dropping the coin in the slot, the hen begins to crow and lays an Metal-egg
filled up with chocolate.
The coloured case is very solid make of metal.
Full guarantee right treatment supposed.
When ordering the coin to be used must be mentioned.
This auction has photos of a similar hen from the same manufacturer (including a photo of the internal workings).
A accompanying the leaflet said the sender had checked out one of the hens in Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne. The Melbourne Museum now has one of the Cole's hens on display (different manufacturer, I think) in their Cole's Book Arcade exhibit.
