Object Details
- National Cash Register Company
- Description
- In the 1950s Americans increasingly bought groceries in supermarkets, which served large numbers of customers. Consumers selected their own goods, and took them to a clerk who rang up sales. To make transactions as efficient as possible, the National Cash Register Company introduced machines that dispensed coins automatically, avoiding time and errors associated with making change. This change-making cash register went on the market in 1954, with a new model in 1958. This example was given to the Smithsonian by NCR in 1959, on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the company.
- Reference:
- Accession file.
- Credit Line
- Gift of National Cash Register Company
- 1959
- ID Number
- MA.316702
- accession number
- 225455
- catalog number
- 316702
- Object Name
- cash register
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 50 cm x 46 cm x 41 cm; 19 11/16 in x 18 1/8 in x 16 5/32 in
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Dayton
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- Cash and Credit Registers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Exhibition
- Artifact Walls
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Business
- Record ID
- nmah_694236
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-37fd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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