National Cash Register, Class 51
date: label: date made
content: 1959
name: label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
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content: Reference:
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content: Accession file.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: Artifact Walls
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of National Cash Register Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316702
label: accession number
content: 225455
label: catalog number
content: 316702
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 50 cm x 46 cm x 41 cm; 19 11/16 in x 18 1/8 in x 16 5/32 in