Penny-In-The-Slot Automata and the Working Model

by Darren A. Hesketh

This is the first comprehensive guide to those ingenious amusements which have delighted visitors to the seaside, fairground, or exhibition for over a century. The book features many of the unusual coin-operated models and tableaux built to entertain the public from the 1860s to the 1970s. The models are based on a variety of themes including haunted houses, drunkard scenes, executions, laughing clowns, sailors, puppet-shows, and miniature locomotives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0709074085
• ISBN13: 9780709074083
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Robert Hale & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 10.7"