The first British robot appeared today at the Model Engineering Exhibition in London in 1928. It immediately downed tools and refused to work until suitable arbitration had taken place vis-a-vis the workplace, an afternoon tea break and a tanner extra in the docket.
In other news ...
Titus Oates was born today in 1649. In case you're wondering who he is, he is the bloke who invented breakfast cereal and just popped out for a little while from Robert Falcon Scott's snowbound tent in the Antarctic.
So now you know.
