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How It's Made Mini-Episodes: Change Machines
Change machines were invented in the 1950s in response to the vending machine boom. Early machines were simple mechanical change makers. In this minisode of How It's Made, find out how today's high-tech change machines are created.
Added: Apr 27, 2011
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Runtime: 05:07
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