Ritty Model 1 Cash Register, Possibly a Replica
date: label: date made
content: ca 1904
name: label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: After the Civil War, as American cities and businesses grew, business owners increasingly hired strangers to assist customers. At the time, it was all too easy for clerks and barkeepers to keep part of the money they received. The cash register, invented by the Ritty brothers of Dayton, Ohio, had a large display to indicate the sums customers paid. It also had a locked compartment that tallied total receipts. This is the Rittys' first machine, or an early replica of it. It was the basis for a commercial product called "Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier."
label: Description
content: By 1884 the Rittys were out of business, but their patents were purchased by the National Cash Register Company. NCR made and sold much improved cash registers. By 1904, they were ready to convey the history of their company by showing this model at the St. Louis World's Fair. NCR went on to successfully make not only cash registers and accounting machines but electronic computers.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
label: related event
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Cash and Credit Registers
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kidwell, Peggy A. and Cerruzi, Paul E.. Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial 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.316700
label: accession number
content: 225455
label: catalog number
content: 316700
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 50.5 cm x 55.5 cm x 36 cm; 19 7/8 in x 21 7/8 in x 14 3/16 in