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Other Added - Vending Machines - A Brief History
PEOPLE - The most obvious reason we see a faster rate of change is because we are producing a lot more people and people cause change. People make things - they come up with new ideas - they compete for scarce resources. Whatever sorts of things people do, we'll see it happening more and faster.TECHNOLOGY - Since technology is a product of the human race, we can expect the rate of techno
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So when did this vending machine craze start and who started it?
Vending machines, or going by their technical term "automatic retailing machines" actually go back a long way. Supposedly, and I'm not really sure how you would verify this, the Greek mathematician Hero made the first vending machine in 215 BC when he invented a machine to vend holy water in Egyptian temples. That must have been quite a site.
The first commercial vending machines, however, popped up in London, England in the early 1880's. The first machine dispensed post cards. Then a gentleman by the name of Richard Carlisle, an English publisher and book store owner, invented a vending machine that sold books. The closest thing we have to that today are those machines on the street corners that you get the daily newspaper from. But I digress. In 1888 the Thomas Adams Gum Company gave the United States it's fi
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So when did this vending machine craze start and who started it?
Vending machines, or going by their technical term "automatic retailing machines" actually go back a long way. Supposedly, and I'm not really sure how you would verify this, the Greek mathematician Hero made the first vending machine in 215 BC when he invented a machine to vend holy water in Egyptian temples. That must have been quite a site.
The first commercial vending machines, however, popped up in London, England in the early 1880's. The first machine dispensed post cards. Then a gentleman by the name of Richard Carlisle, an English publisher and book store owner, invented a vending machine that sold books. The closest thing we have to that today are those machines on the street corners that you get the daily newspaper from. But I digress. In 1888 the Thomas Adams Gum Company gave the United States it's f
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The first commercial vending machines, however, popped up in London, England in the early 1880's. The first machine dispensed post cards. Then a gentleman by the name of Richard Carlisle, an English publisher and book store owner, invented a vending machine that sold books. The closest thing we have to that today are those machines on the street corners that you get the daily newspaper from. But I digress. In 1888 the Thomas Adams Gum Company gave the United States it's f
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As time went on you could get just about everything from vending machines including cigars, post cards, stamps, cigarettes, tampons, and the list goes on and on.
Probably the most famous vending machines, even to this day, are the Coca Cola vending machines. How many commercials on TV over the years have we seen that have featured these machines? Of course soda machines are no longer limited to just Coca Cola. Pepsi has also gotten into the
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