Excerpt About the Vending Industry
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Vending (or "automatic retailing" as it is increasingly known)
has a long history. The Greek mathematician Hero seems to have
got the ball rolling in 215BC, when he invented a machine to vend
holy water in Egyptian temples.
The first commercial coin-operated vending machines were introduced
in London, England, in the early 1880s. They dispensed post cards.
Richard Carlisle, an English publisher and bookshop owner, invented
a vending machine for selling books, around the same time.
In 1888, the Thomas Adams Gum Company introduced the very first vending
machines to the United States. The machines were installed on the elevated
subway platforms in New York City and sold Tutti-Fruiti gum. In 1897,
the Pulver Manufacturing Company added animated figures to its' gum machines
as an added attraction. The round candy coated gumball and gumball (vending)
machines were introduced in 1907.
Vending machines soon offered everything including; cigars, postcards,
stamps, etc. In Philadelphia, a completely coin-operated restaurant
called Horn & Hardart was opened in 1902 and stayed opened until 1962.
In the early 1920's, the first automatic vending machines started dispensing
sodas into cups. In 1926, an American inventor named William Rowe invented
a cigarette-vending machine.
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