Vending soda water

Vending soda water 


Oh, how beautiful they were, shiny chrome parts cabinets, hiding in the interior of an entire factory of divine nectar - carbonated water with syrup 
Approach to this miracle of technology, wash the cup, toss a coin, push a button ... Do not shed. Blow another blow ... Only we know the place where to strike and to spare no strength. And then

Since time immemorial, people know that there is this water that drinking is fun and pleasure - tickles and quenches thirst well. What has been achieved this effect in ancient times, people have not thought of. But - and you wonder - even two thousand years ago the famous Heron of Alexandria invented a vending machine for water. Everything was simple: let down the coin to press the lever, opens the valve and the water flowed. History has not preserved the facts change coins at netsennye gravity. But our countrymen tried at all: here and washers, and perforated coin on the fishing line - for repeated use. Designers machines are protected as best they could, but as a rule, the protection of inferior attacked ... 

In an era of rapid development of chemistry that stood out from the mineral water, called carbon dioxide, in a scientific CO2. Then, in the XVIII century, Joseph Priestley invented a device to saturate the water with carbon dioxide. I called him saturator, from the Latin saturo - saturate. But who poured in a one-bottle "mineral water and sweet syrup, the science already knows - maybe some American chemist, like Pemberton, who invented Coca-Cola. We only know that the first vending soda appeared in the United States in 1832. 

In Russia, carbonated water produced from the beginning of the XIX century, but to Gagarin's flight was poured by hand. Since 1917 was generally not up soda - its revival had been in the era of industrialization. Here is a quote from the "Evening Moscow" from April 16, 1932: "An employee of the Leningrad plant" Vienna "Agroshkin invented an interesting device. In each store through this apparatus can be set up production of carbonated water. The first soda fountain ... ready and installed in the dining hall of Smolny. You funny? We - yes. Here and "invention" carbonator, existing for almost two centuries, and placement of new items not in the shop or a hot shop, and in the center of the local Soviet and party authorities. 

In doavtomatnuyu era of shopping and catering points of stood solid "apparatus Agroshkina" with the addition of a drum with cylinders syrups. Then Khrushchev, as once the Czar Peter, who liked to bring to us the western news, and caught sight of in America are different machines and ordered to establish their production in the USSR. But unlike the American, Soviet machines are not adequately staffed with disposable cups, and ordinary faceted, glass. And beat them, and dragging away the amateur figure for the three ... And too many scare stories about the infection was described caring moms! We must think not without reason, because they washed the glasses only from within. 

Individual cups of red (in the literal and figurative senses) machines never made it. Now, companies of the former "Avtomattorga" products for which there is no place just a reusable utensils. But to see the vending of carbonated water on the streets, we hardly destined - modern saturators placed on manufactures but in offices. And we buy bottles and cans, nostalgically recalling puzyristuyu sweet foam over the glass containing three aggregate state of matter at the same time. Rarest of cases, but only achieved a compound of liquid water, gaseous and solid carbon dioxide (though dissolved) of sugar. Called - soda!