The earliest known reference to a vending machine is in the work of Hero of Alexandria, a first-century Greek engineer and mathematician。
His machine accepted a coin and then dispensed holy water。 When the coin was deposited, it fell upon a pan attached to a lever。
The lever opened a valve which let some water flow out。 The pan continued to tilt with the weight of the coin until it fell off, at which point a counterweight snapped the lever up and turned off the valve。
Coin-operated machines that dispensed tobacco were being operated as early as 1615 in the taverns of England。 The machines were portable and made of brass。
An English bookseller, Richard Carlile, devised a newspaper dispensing machine for the dissemination of banned works in 1822。
Simeon Denham was awarded British Patent no。 706 for his stamp dispensing machine in 1867, the first fully automatic vending machine。
是的，1880‘s开始正式登台
Alexandria啊，是个埃及人
好啊，不查不知道，这东西发明的这么早，我也长知识了，厉害。
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