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Point-of-sale and iPads have replaced cash registers for years.
Cash registers are becoming obsolete, but your neighborhood cash-only artisanal cocktail establishment may have one.
Before receipts, mechanical registers were totally mechanical. The employee had to ring up every register transaction, and when the total key was pushed, the drawer opened and a bell alerted the management of a sale. The first machines were simply adding machines.
Bill Bryson says odd pricing came about because by charging 49 and 99 cents (or 45 and 95 cents when nickels are more used than pennies), the cashier had to open the till for penny change and announce the sale.
After the invention, Ritty sold all of his cash register business holdings to Cincinnati china and glassware seller Jacob H. Eckert, who founded the National Manufacturing Company. He was overwhelmed by operating two enterprises. John H. Patterson bought Eckert’s company in 1884 and renamed it the National Cash Register Company. Patterson added a paper roll to record sales transactions, creating the journal for internal bookkeeping and the receipt for external bookkeeping. The receipt was designed to prevent fraud.
