![]() ![]() The third prototype operated by pressing keys that corresponded to specific dollars and cents. After two failed attempts, they finally rang up a winner. The two immediately began working on a prototype. Having a “counting” problem himself, he wondered whether something similar could be made to count the cash transactions back at his saloon.Īs soon as he returned to Dayton, Ritty asked his mechanically inclined brother, John, for help. A year earlier, while on a steamboat trip to Europe, the self-described “ Dealer in Pure Whiskies, Fine Wines, and Cigars” became enamored by a mechanism that counted the revolutions of the steamboat’s propeller. Necessity is the Mother of Inventionįed up with bartenders stealing from him, James Jacob Ritty, a Dayton, Ohio saloonkeeper, invented the first mechanical cash register in 1879. Those are the same attributes that draw the interest of today’s collector. These early fixtures had to be the shiny, crown jewel of the shopkeeper’s establishment―a shrine to the money they held. ![]() Early cash register manufacturers had to sell their registers not just on functionality, but also on beautiful, ornate design.
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