Most of us would have been very familiar with the cash register. Many trading centers in major cities or parts of it if it uses this tool to calculate each sales transaction. In addition to facilitate the calculation of sales transactions, this tool can also help sellers to record the amount of their sales.
Was James Ritty, a bar owner from Dayton, Ohio, United States who first created this tool in 1879. The idea to create the cash register, started when he was often cheated by some of his employees while serving a buyer, until he suffered a loss.
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| The National Museum of American History houses a replica of the Ritty Incorruptible Cashier. The clocklike dial registered the dollars and cents. (Picture from: http://www.wired.com/) |
Ritty got tired of this behavior. In 1878, he came up with an idea for a possible solution to the problem while on a steamboat trip to Europe.
On the ship, Ritty became intrigued by a mechanism that counted how many times the ship's propeller went around. He wondered if something like this could be made to record the cash transactions made at the Pony House. As soon as he got home to Dayton, Ritty and his brother John began working on a design for such a device. Their first model was inaccurate. It looked like a clock with a keyboard, with hands indicating dollars and cents instead of hours and minutes. The second was not much better. But the third prototype was a success.
The third design operated by pressing a key that represented a specific amount of money. There was as yet no cash drawer. Ritty patented the design in 1879 as "Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier." He opened a small factory at 10 South Main Street in Dayton to manufacture cash registers while still operating his saloon.
After a few years Ritty found that running two thriving concerns became too much for him, so Ritty choosing sold all his interests in the cash register business to Jacob H. Eckert, a china and glassware salesman, who formed the National Manufacturing Company and Ritty stayed in the bar business — perhaps not the best decision he ever made.
On the ship, Ritty became intrigued by a mechanism that counted how many times the ship's propeller went around. He wondered if something like this could be made to record the cash transactions made at the Pony House. As soon as he got home to Dayton, Ritty and his brother John began working on a design for such a device. Their first model was inaccurate. It looked like a clock with a keyboard, with hands indicating dollars and cents instead of hours and minutes. The second was not much better. But the third prototype was a success.
The third design operated by pressing a key that represented a specific amount of money. There was as yet no cash drawer. Ritty patented the design in 1879 as "Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier." He opened a small factory at 10 South Main Street in Dayton to manufacture cash registers while still operating his saloon.
After a few years Ritty found that running two thriving concerns became too much for him, so Ritty choosing sold all his interests in the cash register business to Jacob H. Eckert, a china and glassware salesman, who formed the National Manufacturing Company and Ritty stayed in the bar business — perhaps not the best decision he ever made.
Having purchased a patent, the cash register is then started added money storage drawer and a bell that will tinkle when the drawer is open.
In 1884, Eckert sold the company to John H. Patterson. who renamed the company the National Cash Register Company,
Patterson then refine the cash register Ritty and Eckert by adding a roll of paper to record each sales transaction as a purchase receipt. This is early form of cash registers what we see now in many places, ranging from mini-market to large shopping center.
Improvements in the cash register followed from the business Ritty had created. For example, in 1906, while working at the National Cash Register Company, inventor Charles F. Kettering designed a cash register with an electric motor. The National Cash Register Company became NCR Corp. in 1974, which was eventually acquired and spun off by AT&T in the 1990s. Today NCR makes business machines, including cash registers, that use computer technology and electronics. *** [AK | WIRED.COM | WEB.MIT.EDU | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 19012012]
Patterson then refine the cash register Ritty and Eckert by adding a roll of paper to record each sales transaction as a purchase receipt. This is early form of cash registers what we see now in many places, ranging from mini-market to large shopping center.
Improvements in the cash register followed from the business Ritty had created. For example, in 1906, while working at the National Cash Register Company, inventor Charles F. Kettering designed a cash register with an electric motor. The National Cash Register Company became NCR Corp. in 1974, which was eventually acquired and spun off by AT&T in the 1990s. Today NCR makes business machines, including cash registers, that use computer technology and electronics. *** [AK | WIRED.COM | WEB.MIT.EDU | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 19012012]
