McCaskey Credit Register
date: label: date made
content: 1910
name: label: maker
content: McCaskey Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: The McCaskey Register Company of Alliance, Ohio, manufactured systems for keeping track of accounts and credit registers from its organization in 1903 until its purchase by Victor Adding Machine Company in 1953. The firm was started by Perry A. McCaskey, a grocer in Lisbon, Ohio, who took out a patent May 19, 1896, for a “bill and account file” (#560523). He also patented a more complex “credit-accounting appliance” on December 30, 1902 (#717247). McCaskey contiinued to assign patents to the McCaskey Register Company through 1907, although ownership of the firm passed to others and several other inventors contributed to the product.
label: Description
content: This particular machine combines a system for keeping accounts with a cash drawer. It has a wooden base with a wooden roll-top cover. A slatted panel designed for holding credit slips fits over the cash drawer and a piece of glass that fits over the panel. A silver-colored metal compartment is on the front of the cash drawer, with five buttons at the top. A bell is at the back on the inside.
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content: McCaskey patents describe a system of credit slips that fit on bill-holders in the back of the machine. This machine has no bill-holders or slips.
label: Description
content: The donor dated this machine to 1893. However, it was made after the McCaskey Register Company was founded in 1903 and resembles McCaskey’s 1907 patent, hence the later date assigned.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: P. A. McCaskey, “Credit-Accounting Appliance,” U.S. Patent 717247, December 30, 1902.
label: Description
content: Craig Bara and Lyle Crist, <I>Alliance</I>, Charleston, SC: Arcadia Press, 1998, 29.
label: Description
content: Richard R. Crandall and Sam Robins, <I>The Incorruptible Cashier</I>, vol. 2, Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal Press, 1990, pp. 318–319.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Alliance
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 Victor Comptometer Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.336597
label: accession number
content: 1977.0174
label: catalog number
content: 336597
objectType: label: Object Name
content: credit register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
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content: cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 74.5 cm x 57.5 cm x 84 cm; 29 11/32 in x 22 5/8 in x 33 1/16 in