10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENNY-IN-THE-SLOT MACHINE»
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1
Vending Machines: An American Social History
... 1895 a Dutch publication said: “One cannot enter a public place nowadays
without seeing a weighing-machine, a chocolate machine and frequently, a
penny-in-the- slot machine rendering some popular waltz at the cost of a copper
or two.
2
The Card: A Story of Adventure
in the Five Towns
Then he saw the indubitable form of his betrothed at a penny-in-the-slot machine,
and the indubitable form of Nellie at another penny-in-the-slot machine. And then
he could hear the click-click-click of the machines, working rapidly. And his ...
3
The Organization of Action: A New Synthesis
The mindless body reacts with the fatality of a multiple penny-in-the-slot machine
to certain stimuli, all of them, as in the case of the penny-in-the-slot machine,
physical, and not psychical. A point is that these mindless acts yet treat the
animal's ...
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Homemade Candy A PENNY-IN-THE-SLOT machine is not difficult to build and
can be ...
5
The Integrative Action of
the Nervous System
The mindless body reacts with the fatality of a multiple penny-in-the-slot machine
to certain stimuli, all of them, as in the case of the penny-in-the-slot machine,
physical, and not psychical. A point is that these mindless acts yet treat the
animal's ...
Charles Sherrington, 1947
No machine can ever sell — except perhaps a penny- in-the-slot machine. And
on the other hand, the increasing production of machines must be sold.
Economists and editors have clamored for ten years, saying that we are
neglecting the ...
7
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
... so named because the original cost (in the 19th century) was one penny. the
penny drops understanding dawns (referring to the mechanism of a penny-in-the-
slot machine). penny-farthing an early type of bicycle, made in Britain, with.
8
The Non-Violent Militant
It is a penny-in- the-slot machine that won't work. Our democratic machine suffers
from two classes of faults: the first arc inherent in all democratic governing
machines, and the second are peculiar to the one which we have produced. The
latter ...
Teresa Billington-Greig, Carol McPhee, Ann FitzGerald, 2001
9
Picturing Time:
The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)
The Societe envisaged uses for the phonoscope that seemed to have no limits:
animated portraits, moving projection, a penny-in-the- slot machine, and a
combination phonoscope/ phonograph. The large potential profit from the
phonograph ...
10
The Christmas Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic YuletideStories
She always heard them talking, and usually she heard, across at the corner, the
click of the penny-in-the-slot machine, which no child seemed able to pass
without pulling. Tonight, as she heard them coming, Mary fumbled in her purse.
Three ...
Robert Reginald, Mary Wickizer Burgess, John Gregory Betancourt, 2012
