Talk:Vending Machines (Columbia)

"The earliest known

reference to a vending machine is in the work of Hero of Alexandria, a first-century 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......."     (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vending_machine)

Sounds like something Father Comstock would have endorsed .... Never can have enough Holy Water (or coins)

Stolen technology :

It would have been amusing to see a Circus of Values or El Ammo Bandito machine  (or even a lonely Rapture Tribune machine) in Columbia since they seem to have stolen so many other things. At least in Finks place where they, if anything, have them there (in pieces?) trying to reverse-engineeer them.

75.36.142.143 15:28, February 16, 2014 (UTC)