What is it about the vending machine? We see one, and are immediately drawn to it. Maybe it's the fact that the food and drink safely secured within it is off-limits, making it even more desirable.

Who among us would imagine that chewing gum has ancient origins? Many cultures around the word used various substances as chewing gum. In the recent past, a chewed wad of birch resin was discovered by ...

Vending machines have long been a convenient and relatively low cost method of delivering food and drink. They have also been a source of unplanned eating and drinking (after all, currently, few ...

The devices are ubiquitous in our world yet those as we know them didn’t emerge until the latter days of the 19th century. But wait! The very first vending machine was actually invented almost two ...