Sperry Remington Cash Register
date: label: date made
content: ca 1970
name: label: maker
content: Sperry Remington
notes: label: Description
content: This combination adding machine and a cash drawer (AMOD) was made by Sperry Corporation in Searcy, Arkansas. It has four columns of keys for dollars and cents, three additional columns of digit keys, and three columns of keys with various functions on them. An addition bar and cancel button are across the base, and a paper tape at the top. Sales are not displayed visually by any indicator. The metal cash drawer has plastic divisions for change and cash. A key received with the machine controls a lever on the left side.
label: Description
content: Marks on the front and back read: Sperry Remington. A mark in marker on the underside reads: 686155. A label attached to the underside reads: MANUFACTURED BY (/) REMINGTON RAND (/) OFFICE MACHINES DIVISION (/) MADE IN SEARCY, ARK.. U.S.A. This label also reads: MODEL 146308-10.
label: Description
content: The Remington Rand Division of Sperry Rand Corporation began manufacturing cash registers in 1960, when the corporation acquired the adding machine and cash register division of Clary Corporation, including its factory in Searcy. The form of Sperry Remington trademark on the machine is from about 1968. By 1978, the name of Sperry Rand Corporation had changed because of other mergers, and electronic cash registers were becoming common. For these reasons, the approximate date of the machine is 1970.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Arkansas, Searcy
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 Richard W. Hayman and J. Alan Hayman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0281.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0281
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0281.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 13 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in; 35.56 cm x 34.29 cm x 46.99 cm