CashRegister

==//**James Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier and the National Cash Register Company** // ==

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//Are you tired of your employees stealing from your open cash drawer, losing tons of profit, and never being able to keep an accurate record of the day's sales? Well, here's the product for you!// ======

//**The Cash Register -- A Brief History**// In 1878, James Ritty of Dayton, Ohio was on a ship bound for Europe, and saw a machine that could keep track of the number of revolutions the boat's propeller made. Intrigued, Ritty became determined to create a similar machine to keep track of sales. As a saloon owner in Dayton, Ritty had had trouble with his employees stealing cash from him. Due to a lack of technology that was able to keep track of his money, he never knew how much he had actually lost, or if he was even making a profit. In 1879, he patented his invention, called the Ritty Model 1. The Model 1 essentially kept track of sales and the amount of each sale using a gauge at the front, much like the one that kept track of the propeller revolutions. However, there was not much of a business behind the making and selling of his Model 1's at this point, and Ritty could not handle juggling two businesses (his saloon and the cash register company) and thus, his company caved and the patent of the cash register was sold to several investors, namely Jacob H. Eckert and John H. Patterson. In 1884, Eckert created the National Manufacturing Company, and during this time the cash register was upgraded to have a drawer for keeping money, and a bell that sounded off with every sale, often called "The Bell Heard 'Round the World." Also in 1884, John H. Patterson became the majority owner of the cash register stock, and thus the National Cash Register Company was created. Patterson upgraded the cash register with a paper roll and hole punches that would create a receipt of sorts with the day's sales, allowing the merchant to keep even more accurate track of their profits and sales. From then on out, the cash register grew in use, eventually to the point that every merchant had one, or wanted to have one. What started with a simple, mechanical way to keep track of sales has evolved into a mass business, and we have the cash registers to fit anyone's needs.



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To make a transaction, the sales clerk presses metal taps corresponding to the price of the purchase. The amount of the sale is then added to a total sales amount throughout the day with each purchase, either through a gauge on the front of the cash register, or by a sales receipt. If the register has a roll of receipt paper and is of the right model, a hole is punched into the receipt in either a dollars are cents column corresponding with the taps that have been pushed. For example, if the purchase is $2.50, there will be two holes in the dollars column of the receipt, and fifty holes in the cents column. At the conclusion of the sale, the cash drawer opens and a bell rings ("The Bell Heard 'Round the World"), alerting the merchant that a sale has been made. The cash is then inserted into the correct places in the cash drawer, the drawer is closed, and the process begins again with another purchase. ====== __Citations:__ [|The History of Cash Registers] [|Where Did the Cash Register Come From?] [|First Picture] [|Ohio History Central] [|1904 Replica of the Ritty Model 1 Cash Register] [|Antique Cash Registers]

Project by Kyle Martin, TK Ramberg, and Eric Salan