The History of Gumballs
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While people could find sticks of gum in train station vending machines as early as 1888, they could not find gumballs in vending machines until 1907. Most likely, the first company to offer a train station a gumball machine was the Thomas Adam Gum Company. At that time, people could purchase a gumball from the machine for one penny. The public received the gumball machine well and children and adults today still enjoy them a great deal. While most gumball machines dispense round balls of gum, some also dispense pieces of bulk candy or capsules that contain toys or temporary tattoos. If you are interested in vending gumballs, you will be interested to know that a gumball costs three pennies when purchased from a wholesaler but you can dispense them for twenty-five cents each. With such a profit margin, the gumball machine is often the most lucrative vending machine.
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