An automated breakfast maker was constructed by Emmett Brown in 1885 at his livery stable. When a cuckoo clock struck 7:00 in the morning, the chute underneath a caged chicken opened, and one egg rolled into a ceramic bowl that held the shell as it tipped and poured the egg into a hot frying pan. A pot of coffee sat on another burner of the stove, a piece of toast was lifted out of a toaster by a string, and a strip of bacon was pressed through a washing machine mangle into another pan. However, despite its clever construction, the breakfast maker has several flaws: