Cash Register with Display Cases, possibly by Waddell
date: label: date made
content: ca 1895
notes: label: Description
content: This device consists of a wooden cash register between two wooden and glass display cases. Amounts are entered by dropping balls into holes for 1, 2, 5,10, 25, and 50 cents, and 1 and 5 dollars. Another hole is labeled "Ticket". From these holes at the back of the machine, the balls slide forward and accumulate in slots on top of the cash drawer. Pop-up numbers above the holes rise up when a ball is dropped. Neither these numbers nor for the slots have any cover.
label: Description
content: This object resembles several devices manufactured in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Greenfield, Ohio. It is quite similar to a “cash indicator and register” patented by J. H Schnarrenberger of Greenfield in 1891 (U.S. patent 465732). These cash registers were manufactured by firms associated with John M. Waddel (also spelled John M. Waddell), whose primary business was in the building of display cases and other business furniture.
label: Description
content: Compare to the description of the Waddel, Simplex, and Sun cash registers given in Crandall. Papers of the Waddell Company are at the Ohio Historical Society. By 1929, the Waddell Company was selling a combination of three adjacent display cases, with a money drawer under the shallower middle case. There was no cash register in this later item.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Richard L. Crandall, <I>The Incorruptible Cashier</I>, Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal Press, 1988, vol. 1, pp. 133–147.
label: Description
content: Waddell Company, Show Cases, Store Furniture Catalogue No. 109, Greenfield, OH: Waddell Co., Inc., 1929, pp. 10–11.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Cash and Credit Registers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Connie Eisinger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.325694
label: accession number
content: 256655
label: catalog number
content: 325694
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 132.5 cm x 56 cm; 11 1/32 in x 52 5/32 in x 22 1/16 in