Vending+Machines

=__Enduring Impacts-__ **An Invention that changes the course of tomorrow. Some Enduring Impacts include**= ====**﻿Rome- ﻿ Some Enduring Impacts from Rome would be things like streets, brass, and the abacus. **====

China- abacus and the crossbow
India-Exponents Vending Machines were thought to have been invented around the 1st century B.C. The first recorded use of a vending machine was found in the works of Hero of Alexandria. The machine accepted a coin a dispensed a fixed amount of holy water. The coin fell onto a pan attached to a lever. The lever opened up a valve which dispensed water. During the Industrial Age, they came to prominence. The first modern vending machine was made in London, England in the early 1880's, and it dispensed post cards. The first vending machine in the U.S. dispensed gum.