More modern examples include telephone switchboard operators being replaced with automatic switchboards in 1960, and robotic arms replacing human painters in car factories in the 1980s.
" A young woman with her hair in a bun sits at an operator's switchboard eating a sandwich wrapped in wax-paper." " She is Becky." So why is Becky eating a sandwich?
The last time a British monarch died, 65 years ago, the demise of George VI was conveyed in a code word, " Hyde Park Corner" , to Buckingham Palace, to prevent switchboard operators from finding out.