英语词汇vending machine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

vending machine. The term vending machine seems to have been introduced either by the Adams’ Gum Company (now part of American Chicle) in the 1880s to describe the machine the company used to sell tutti-fruitti gumballs on New York City elevated train platforms, or at about the same time by the Frank H. Fleer Gum Company. At that time Fleer’s founder agreed to an experiment proposed by a young vending machine salesman. The salesman argued that vending machines were so great a sales gimmick that people would actually drop a penny in them for nothing. Frank Fleer agreed to buy several ma- chines if the young man’s pitch proved true, and the experiment was conducted at New York’s Flatiron Building. The salesman set up a vending machine there, with printed instructions to “drop a penny in the slot and listen to the wind blow.” He got Fleer’s order when hundreds of people contributed their pen- nies and continued to do so until New York’s Finest hauled the machine away.

词汇	vending machine
词源	vending machine. The term vending machine seems to have been introduced either by the Adams’ Gum Company (now part of American Chicle) in the 1880s to describe the machine the company used to sell tutti-fruitti gumballs on New York City elevated train platforms, or at about the same time by the Frank H. Fleer Gum Company. At that time Fleer’s founder agreed to an experiment proposed by a young vending machine salesman. The salesman argued that vending machines were so great a sales gimmick that people would actually drop a penny in them for nothing. Frank Fleer agreed to buy several ma- chines if the young man’s pitch proved true, and the experiment was conducted at New York’s Flatiron Building. The salesman set up a vending machine there, with printed instructions to “drop a penny in the slot and listen to the wind blow.” He got Fleer’s order when hundreds of people contributed their pen- nies and continued to do so until New York’s Finest hauled the machine away.
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