National Cash Register, Model 313
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: This 1913 National Cash Register Company cash register has an ornate brass exterior with a marble plate above the cash drawer. In addition to the wooden cash drawer and pop-up indicators at the top, the machine had two rows of keys. Keys in the top row are numbered 90, 70, 50, 35, 25, 15,and 5 (the rightmost key is missing a label). Keys in the bottom row are labeled $1, 80, 60, 40, 30, 20, 10 (the rightmost key is missing a label). Inside a locked compartment above the keys is a register that reads dollars and cents up to $9999.99, a four-digit customer counter, and a two-digit no sale counter. The machine has no mechanism to assist the clerk in adding up totals for individual sales and no paper tape to serve as a receipt. It has serial number 1265603.
label: Description
content: By this time, aggressive sales tactics, numerous acquisitions, and frequent lawsuits had won NCR dominance in the cash register market. The firm also trained numerous young executives, including Thomas J. Watson. When the U.S. government found NCR in violation of antitrust law, several of these executives, including Watson, were fired. Watson was soon hired by the Computing Tabulating Machine Company of Endicott, New York, becoming the president of a firm that soon was known as IBM.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Cortada, James. <I>Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created. 1865-1956</I>, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
label: Description
content: Crandall, Robert L. and Sam Robins. <I>The Incorruptible Cashier</I>, vol. II, Vestal, N.Y.: The Vestal Press, 1990.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
content: Computers & Business Machines
label: See more items in
content: Cash and Credit Registers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.333754
label: accession number
content: 302254
label: catalog number
content: 333754
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: marble (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 43.2 cm x 26 cm x 40.7 cm; 17 in x 10 1/4 in x 16 1/32 in