You may also find the websites of collectors and other enthusiasts helpful for your research. frequently include on their website timelines, images, written histories, and other items that may be of interest. Those companies that made a significant contribution to an industry, technology, etc. Anyone interested in doing more research on the companies may want to visit the company's website. The books included here look at the machines themselves as well as some of the larger manufacturers of cash registers. The cash register is now less a single mechanical machine and is often a networked computer hooked up to payment and inventory systems hundreds of miles away. In the 20th century the cash register evolved with the increasing use of credit cards and the 21st century has brought a growth in electronic banking through individual smart phones and payment processing and money transfers. Ritty sold the invention, and eventually, John Henry Patterson and his brother Frank Jefferson Patterson bought it and named their company National Cash Register Company (NCR). The cash register was developed by James Jacob Ritty, a saloon keeper in Ohio, with the issuance of patent 221,360.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.
Cash register inside the apothecary, an early form of a pharmacy, at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT.
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