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What was the first thing ever put into a vending machine?

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  1. I believe it was Holy water


  2. early 1880s,  first commercial coin-operated vending machines were introduced in London, England and dispensed post cards. English publisher and bookshop owner, Richard Carlisle invented a vending machine for selling books, around the same time.

  3. I believe the Romans had a holy water dispenser, you inserted a coin and got a small amount of holy water, it was basically a drum with a cork and a lever, when the coin landed in the lever, it opened the cork, the coin rolled off, and then closed.  

  4. the items needed to put there so it will be useful as a 'vending machine'

  5. postcards

  6. First thing to be dispensed in vending machines were postcards...in london in the year 1880

  7. it was a condom in rest rooms ,  

  8. Cigarettes.

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