Back in the 1920s, it seemed everything was becoming coin-operated. All over the U.S., you could find coin-operated weighing machines at railroad stations; coin-operated vending machines were chock ...

Nation’s first complete online retailer further revolutionizes car buying; creates Vending Machine that dispenses cars like cans of soda NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carvana, the first complete ...

Brookhaven Town officials have removed two coin-operated dispensers selling pens inside ceramic glass pipes that they said could be perceived as makeshift crack pipes. The dispensers were removed from ...

HOUSTON-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--Carvana, a better way to buy a car, announced today the opening of the nation’s largest fully-automated, coin-operated Car Vending Machine in Houston – the second of its ...

On December 16, 1884, 134 years ago today, William Henry Fruen, of Minneapolis, patented his "Automatic Liquid-Drawing Device." Designed to look like a building, Fruen's device dispensed mineral water ...

Online automotive retailer Carvana has an eye-catching new publicity stunt. The company launched its fully-automated, coin-operating car “Vending Machine’’ in Nashville, Tennessee last week. The ...