The first vending machine was invented by an ancient Greek during the 1st century AD and was a holy water dispenser.

The Pythagorean Cup, an invention from ancient Greece, shows that Greek heads weren't in the intellectual clouds all the time.

PHILOMEN PROBERT, STEPHANIE ROUSSOU, THE INVENTION OF THE GREEK PROSODIC SIGNS, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 139 (2019), pp. 125-146 ...

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For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.