How Vendors Exchange is leading innovation within its industry
Vending machines have been around for longer than you might imagine . The first modern vending machines were invented by Percival Everitt in the early 1880s . Developed in London , they primarily dispensed postcards , and soon became commonplace across railway stations and post offices throughout the UK .
You have to go even further back , however , to find the first example of any machine dispensing items in exchange for money . Reference to such a machine is found in the work of Hero of Alexandria , an engineer and mathematician in first-century Roman Egypt , whose own invention accepted coins , which would trigger a lever and value mechanism , before dispensing holy water .
Hero was undoubtedly ahead of his time , but the vending machines of today are a different beast from
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