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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

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Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech

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Speaker 1: are you? So? For the last several years, I've been

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Speaker 1: playing a game that's a computer game that's been an

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Speaker 1: alpha build for like nearly a decade. In fact, the

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Speaker 1: first build was released in twenty thirteen, and the developers

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Speaker 1: still give the game the alpha designation and it's still

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Speaker 1: in the alpha build. It hasn't even entered beta testing yet.

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Speaker 1: This is the survival crafting game the zombie game called

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Speaker 1: Seven Days to Die, So, as you would imagine, you're

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Speaker 1: a survivor in a zombie apocalypse and you have to

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Speaker 1: cobble together a way to survive and perhaps even thrive

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Speaker 1: in a world where every seven days, hordes of zombies

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Speaker 1: run straight at you, no matter where you're high. They

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Speaker 1: know exactly where you are, and they move super fast

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Speaker 1: to come and get you anyway. One of the important

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Speaker 1: things in that game is that there are vending machines

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Speaker 1: where you can purchase food and drinks and medications that

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Speaker 1: will help you survive. I have no idea who in

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Speaker 1: the game is restocking all those vending machines. I mean,

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Speaker 1: some of them are located where there are traders, like

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Speaker 1: as in people who trade, but there are other vending machines.

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Speaker 1: You'll just find random buildings and they still seem to

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Speaker 1: have a stock and they work. So that's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: But it got me to thinking I should do an

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Speaker 1: episode about sort of the history of vending machines. They

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Speaker 1: have been around for a really long time, and it's

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Speaker 1: a clever way to offer a scaled down shopping experience

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Speaker 1: without having to mind the store all day. You can

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Speaker 1: even design your machine in such a way that it

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Speaker 1: attracts people and acts like a salesperson and you don't

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Speaker 1: have to pay them. So today we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about the history and a little bit about the technology

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Speaker 1: of vending machines, and that history stretches back further than

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Speaker 1: you might think, unless you've looked into this before, in

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Speaker 1: which case you know where I'm going. So you might

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Speaker 1: think about visions of like automats in the nineteen fifties,

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Speaker 1: and you know old cigarette machines prior to nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: seven here in the United States, where they were made

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Speaker 1: illegal out of the concern that you know, people under

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Speaker 1: there and pulling a lever. But we actually have to

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Speaker 1: go much further back, all the way back to the

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Speaker 1: first century of the common era in Egypt, specifically in

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Speaker 1: the city Alexandria. So in that city was a dude

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Speaker 1: named Hero or Huron sometimes. But Hero was kind of

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Speaker 1: a tinkerer and a thinker. He was an engineer and

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Speaker 1: an inventor. He experimented with all sorts of clever and

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Speaker 1: sometimes danger devices, and among his gadgets and gizmos of

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Speaker 1: plenty was the very first vending machine that we are

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Speaker 1: aware of. I mean, maybe someone made one before Hero did,

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Speaker 1: but this is the first one on record, because who knows.

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Speaker 1: People didn't write everything down. But Hero's invention is one

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Speaker 1: that we do know of what. We don't know whether

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Speaker 1: or not he actually ever built it, but we know

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Speaker 1: when you get down to it. Now. When one would

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Speaker 1: go and visit a holy temple back in those days,

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Speaker 1: one was expected to wash one's hands in holy water,

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Speaker 1: and Hero came up with a way to dispense holy

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Speaker 1: water while also earning money for the temple. He designed

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Speaker 1: a holy water dispenser, a holy water vending machine. That

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Speaker 1: is a wild thing to say, but here's how it worked.

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Speaker 1: The dispenser, which looked kind of like a big urn

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Speaker 1: That pan was actually at the other end of a lever.

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Speaker 1: This lever would then be attached to a pivot point,

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Speaker 1: hold down the lever. It tilts back up. The valve

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Speaker 1: it shuts off the water. Your water dispensation is complete.

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Speaker 1: You now have the holy water needed to wash your

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Speaker 1: hands and go and you know, worship whichever god the

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Speaker 1: temple was devoted to. Again, I don't know if Hero

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Speaker 1: He had a work that loosely translated means mechanics and optics,

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Speaker 1: and he described it within that work, and there's no

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Speaker 1: reason it couldn't work. There's no reason he couldn't have

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Speaker 1: built it. It was based off of very simple mechanism.

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Speaker 1: Now you would have to get the weights just right

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Speaker 1: then nothing happens, although I guess you could always blame

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Speaker 1: it on the fickle gods at that point. There also

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Speaker 1: would have been no way for the machine to differentiate

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Speaker 1: not spend a coin doing it. So you could use

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Speaker 1: Although that doesn't seem like it's really keeping in spirit

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Speaker 1: also weird to make holy water dispensation a transactional process

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Speaker 1: even say. Anyway, as a design, Hero's machine was pretty

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Speaker 1: it wasn't even necessarily likely that the worshippers would even

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Speaker 1: and it would be the for vending machines. It's just

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Speaker 1: that would to spend stuff like garum and olive, zenda

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Speaker 1: a thousand years actually, before we would start getting into

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Speaker 1: descriptions of devices that we might group together in the

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Speaker 1: family of vending machines. So next up, based on lots

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Speaker 1: only fitting that the second vending machine dispenses tobacco. It's snuff.

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Speaker 1: So at this point we're in England and we're in

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Speaker 1: the sixteen hundreds, so seventeenth century, and there were these

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Speaker 1: and this would be in jolly Old England, and patrons

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Speaker 1: So you put a coin in, you push the plunger

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Speaker 1: a haypenny. And then once done, the bar employee would

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Speaker 1: a flavor of chewing gum called two D Fruity. He

431
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: also did a spearmint, blackjack clove flavored chewing gums. But

432
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: he also patented and created a two D Fruity gum machine.

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00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 1: And it had a coin slot, and it had a

434
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Speaker 1: shelf for the product to land in, and had two levers,

435
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: so when you would put a coin in the slot

436
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: and press the levers down, it activated the mechanism inside

437
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: which would allow a piece of gum to fall down

438
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: a chute and land in the little dispenser shelf for

439
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: someone to pick up. They were not terribly reliable, according

440
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 1: to to contemporary reports that they were often not working properly.

441
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes someone would shove something into a coin

442
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: slot that gummed it up for everyone, or just got jammed,

443
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: or it was empty, but there was no way of

444
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: telling it was empty until after you had put a

445
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: coin in and pushed believers down, and then there's no

446
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: way to get your coin back, So they definitely had issues,

447
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: but according to at least some reports, they were pretty

448
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: darn popular. He put a lot of vending machines on

449
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: places like along the New York City subway system, along

450
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,919
Speaker 1: the platforms for the subways, and so people would get

451
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 1: to the subway, they'd be waiting on a train, and

452
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: meanwhile there'd be this little machine where they could get

453
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: a nice tasty piece of two D fruity gum for

454
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: just a penny, and it wasn't socially inacceptable to chew gum,

455
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: so you could actually do that and help pass some time. Yeah,

456
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: it turned out that would be a real foot hold

457
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: for vending machines, and yeah, it got to a point

458
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: where it inspired a lot of other shop owners to

459
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: do something similar. A lot of the early innovation were

460
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: in things like how to make sure that you had

461
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: the right coins being used, because once you get past

462
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: the penny slot type stuff, you know, if you're talking

463
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: about things that cost more than a penny, like it's

464
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: maybe ten cents or five cents, then figuring out ways

465
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: to accept different kinds of coins would become part of

466
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: the challenge. And there were lots of interesting mechanical systems here,

467
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: because remember this is before we get into electronics, and

468
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: those mechanical systems would include things like you know, like

469
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: a ratchet gear which can turn in one direction, but

470
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: because of a poll, cannot turn the other way. This

471
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: is that clicking noise you hear when you use like

472
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: an old school gum machine, like a gumball machine, you

473
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: put a coin in, you start turning. You hear that

474
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: click click, click, click click noise. That's the poll clicking

475
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: against the ratchet. It is the ratchet is angled in

476
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: such a way where you can turn the handle one way,

477
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: like clockwise from your perspective, but you can't turn it

478
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: the opposite direction. It prevents it from going back the

479
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: other way. Or building a machine that relies on gravity.

480
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: Gumball machines are another good example. Like don't make it

481
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: more complicated that it needs to be. Use the physical

482
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: laws to your advantage, where nature herself is replenishing the

483
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: supply for the next piece available. So like in a

484
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: candy bar machine, that'd be a stack of candy bars

485
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: in it, and activating the device would allow what candy

486
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: bar to slide through, but it also would mean that

487
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: gravity would pull everything else down, So that the next

488
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: candy bar is in position for whomever uses the machine next.

489
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: Really really clever stuff to like minimize the amount of

490
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: mechanics that you need for making one of these machines

491
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: work at a basic level. Obviously, later you go, the

492
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: more complicated these machines would get. It would not take

493
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: very much time at all for people to try and

494
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: figure out ways to cheat vending machines to use like

495
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: a slug, for example, which is just something that's about

496
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: the same size and weight as a coin, but it's

497
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Speaker 1: not a coin, like a hollowed out disk of steel,

498
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: for example, it's often a disc because you could tie

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00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: a string through the whole of the disk and then

500
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: potentially retrieve your slug for use again to just cheat

501
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: a machine out of all of its supply. So a

502
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: lot of innovation was then dedicated to ways to try

503
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: and prevent people from cheating. So one thing that started

504
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: going into machines were really powerful magnets, which wouldn't really

505
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: affect regular coins because there's not enough ferromagnetic material in

506
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: them for it to make a big difference. But if

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Speaker 1: you're using like steel slugs, they would be pulled the

508
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: magnet and get caught there, so you wouldn't activate the machine.

509
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: I Meanwhile, like when the vendor would come and open

510
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: things up, they could clear all the slugs out, So

511
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: that would be one way. But there were also ways

512
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: where they would develop systems that would essentially detect the

513
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: size and weight of coins to allow the right coins

514
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: to go through and to deny the wrong coins from

515
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: going through. So, for example, when you get into the

516
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: nickel and dime era, a lot of those machines would

517
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: not accept pennies. They would accept nickels and dimes, and

518
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: that's it, And so the slot would be big enough

519
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: for a nickel to fit through, but not for something

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00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: like a quarter or a half dollar or something like

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00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: that to go through. Pennies, however, are slightly larger than dimes,

522
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: but they're smaller than nickels. So how do you account

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Speaker 1: for those? How do you get it so that a

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00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: machine can tell the difference between a penny and a dime. Well,

525
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: one thing you can do is build essentially a track

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00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: that the coins go down, where the track has holes

527
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: in it, and those holes are large enough for a

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00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: dime to fit through, but not for a penny or

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00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: a nickel. And then a little further down the track,

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00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: you have holes that a penny can fit through but

531
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: not a nickel, and you have the dimes divert to

532
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: a path that activates the machine. You have the nickels

533
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: divert to a path that will activate the machine. Pennies

534
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: will end up going down a chute that's to the

535
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: return coin slot, so you don't end up counting the

536
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: pennies as dimes. Pretty clever, simple approach, but limited as

537
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: time would go on. You would have other methods to

538
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: do this sort of thing, where you would have optical

539
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: sensors and electromagnets inside a machine to detect coins and

540
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: make sure they are the correct coins to go through.

541
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Speaker 1: So you know, optical sensors could measure the size of

542
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: a coin as it rolls past, now, measuring the diameter

543
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: of the coin and determining, all right, well that's a quarter,

544
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: you know, because these would be very precise these days,

545
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: our coins are uniform in shape and weight and consistent.

546
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: And see, the electromagnet would determine exactly what kind of

547
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: metals were used to make that coin, So again you

548
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: could prevent fakes from going through, even if those fakes

549
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: were the same size and weight of legitimate coins, right,

550
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: because if unless they're made of the exact same stuff,

551
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: in which case they might as well be a coin,

552
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: then you're you're not going to fool the machine. Later on,

553
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: you would have, you know, pending machines that clearly could

554
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: accept paper currency. These typically have a simple optical system

555
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: in them where they can detect the note has been

556
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: put in, using various stuff like ultraviolet light and other

557
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: mythod methods for looking for the telltale signs of is

558
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: this an acceptable form of currency or not. It's not

559
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: like it's you know, detecting forgeries or whatever. It's just saying, okay,

560
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: well does this match what I am allowed to accept

561
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: as payment or if it doesn't, I reject it and

562
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: the little dollar comes rolling right back out. So if

563
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: your dollars really dirty or are hard to read because

564
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: it's been crumpled up so much, it may not be

565
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: accepted by a vending machine because the sensors cannot verify

566
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: that it's a real dollar bill. And then even later

567
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: still you have vending machines that work with things like

568
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: credit and debit cards, And we started to get into

569
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: the realm of the crazy super modern machines. But those

570
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: early ones, to me, are really fascinating because again, they

571
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: were largely mechanical systems. Even when you get into the

572
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: nineteen twenties where they started to get electrified, and then

573
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: you get into the nineteen fifties and sixties where they

574
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: started getting a little more sophisticated, a lot of the

575
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: actual operations of the machines were mechanical systems, and to me,

576
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: that's really just cool because so much of what we

577
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: work with and interact with today are digital systems that

578
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: we can kind of forget the engine new that went

579
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: into creating these mechanical devices that could dole out stuff

580
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: for whatever money we put in, and that stuff is

581
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: all sorts of things, right. They've made vending machines for

582
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: crazy stuff. I mean, like even early on, like in

583
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds, Paris had vending machines that were connected

584
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: to the city's water system and you could go and

585
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: purchase quarts of water. Hot water in Paris vending machines

586
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: that were connected to the system. So maybe you don't

587
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: have a water furnace at home, you could buy hot

588
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: water and then carry it home for use, which was

589
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. Or in England, in Birmingham, England. They

590
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,720
Speaker 1: had the gas company came up with a clever way

591
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: of making people pay to you know, stay warm and

592
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: not die in the winter. They had systems set up

593
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: with gas pipes where you would put in a coin

594
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: for a certain amount of cubic volume of natural gas

595
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: for the purposes of heating, and that would just essentially

596
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: allot that amount to you until the amount ran out,

597
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: and then you'd have to put more money in if

598
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: you wanted to maintain heat. But there were tons of

599
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: different vnting machines and still are in some places. Japan

600
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: is famous for its vending machines and for its variety

601
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: of vending machines. There were vending machines that dispensed alcohol, which,

602
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: as you can imagine, could easily be abused. Cigarettes very

603
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: common until the nineteen nineties here in the United States,

604
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: still common in some places but not here in the US.

605
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: In fact, I saw a great video of an artist

606
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 1: in the Carolinas who has taken cigarette machines and turned

607
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: them into art dispensing machines. So you come up to

608
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: one and you look at the different art that is available.

609
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: You put in five dollars, you pull a lever and

610
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: it dispenses the art and it's called the Arto Mattic

611
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: and they apparently have been populating various places, including as

612
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: far away as Australia. I have never seen one of these,

613
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 1: but I think it's a cool idea. It's very similar

614
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: to the bibliomatic that I mentioned earlier in the episode.

615
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: But yeah, you'd find them for stuff like perfume or

616
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: for soap or soup, and that one letter makes a

617
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 1: big difference. I saw one that was hot curry over rice,

618
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: and that was interesting too because that machine that I

619
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: saw on a video, it was a Japanese machine that

620
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: served hot curry on rice. The machine did not have

621
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: a microwave in it some of the machines that serve

622
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: hot food. The way that works is the machine is

623
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: designed to microwave your selection and then give you a

624
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: hot meal. This one had heating elements inside the machine

625
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: because it was it predated microwaves, so using electricity it

626
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 1: kept everything hot and you would have to have someone

627
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: cook rice, portion it out in bowls, put the bowls

628
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: inside the machine. At the beginning of the day. It

629
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: held pouches of curry and when you put the money

630
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: in the machine would hold the pouch in place, a

631
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: knife would slice the pouch open, and it would squeeze

632
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,720
Speaker 1: the pouch on top of a bowl of this cooked

633
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: rice and then serve you curry over rice, which I

634
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: just thought was really clever. But there's been tons of

635
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: other stuff, Like I saw in one video that supposedly

636
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 1: there were vending machines out in the Western United States

637
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: that sold divorce papers. That's pretty enterprising. Or you know

638
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: a car, you would buy the keys to a car

639
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 1: through a vending machine, which is again crazy, but yeah,

640
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: there's no shortage of those. And like, there's so many

641
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: different kinds with different delivery systems. To talk about how

642
00:38:55,239 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: they all work would get pretty long winded and repetitive

643
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: in many ways. The one thing I will say is

644
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: that there are classic snack machine here in the United States,

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Speaker 1: the ones that have the spirals. The way those work

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Speaker 1: is when you make your selection, then a motor that's

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Speaker 1: behind all the selections behind those bars engages with the

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Speaker 1: mechanism that connects to that curved bar that holds the

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Speaker 1: snacks in place, and then it rotates it three hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty degrees. So there's essentially an axle that plugs

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Speaker 1: in to some gears that then are connected to the spiral.

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Speaker 1: It rotates the spiral three hundred and sixty degrees, which

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Speaker 1: is supposed to dispense a treat now, whatever the snack is.

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Speaker 1: Typically there's some sort of optical system towards the bottom

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Speaker 1: of these vending machines that can detect whether or not

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Speaker 1: something went through, and if nothing went through, some of

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Speaker 1: these machines will then do a second rotation of that

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Speaker 1: wire just in case something had been like accidentally mis installed,

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Speaker 1: or maybe two things came out the last rotation, and

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Speaker 1: so there's a gap and then hopefully your potato chips

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Speaker 1: or popcorn or whatever it might be falls through and

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Speaker 1: you can pick it up. But yeah, there's so many

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Speaker 1: different mechanisms and so many different varieties. I went through

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Speaker 1: a long rabbit hole of watching videos of vending machines,

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Speaker 1: which ended up not being very useful for this episode,

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Speaker 1: but it was really entertaining. So if you ever want

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Speaker 1: to just waste a few hours watching you know, ridiculous

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Speaker 1: vending machine footage, there's no shortage of it online, I'm

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Speaker 1: happy to tell you. And that's it. That's it for

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Speaker 1: this little look at the history of vending machines. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, like the real history of the modern day

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Speaker 1: vending machine can be traced back to the late eighteen

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Speaker 1: hundreds early nineteen hundreds. I would say that the heyday

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Speaker 1: was probably the fifties and sixties. It's when we saw

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Speaker 1: like the rise of the automat. That would have been

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Speaker 1: the restaurants that you could go to where you could

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Speaker 1: get things like a sandwich or a piece of pie

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Speaker 1: or whatever by putting some money into a slot and

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Speaker 1: then opening up a drawer and pulling out your selection

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Speaker 1: and sitting down and never interacting with another human being.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people personally who would love

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Speaker 1: it if everything they ever had to get was an

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Speaker 1: a vending machine so they never had to interact with

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Speaker 1: other human beings. I am not that person, but I

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Speaker 1: understand where they're coming from. Yeah, anyways, super cool stuff.

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Speaker 1: You can totally check out more videos on YouTube, and

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Speaker 1: I sure hope you do, because, like I said, there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of really entertaining ones. That's it. I

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Speaker 1: hope you are all well, and I'll talk to you

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