Hero’s Vending Machine: The Ancient Greek Device That Inspired the Slot Machine
Reading this history: “Inspired” in the title describes a conceptual comparison. Direct influence on later slot-machine inventors is not established by the sources presented here. Hero of Alexandria described a coin-operated liquid dispenser in his Pneumatica. It is an intriguing early example of a machine responding to an inserted coin. Comparing it with a slot […]
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