Indicator and Cash Register

The first registers were entirely mechanical, without receipts. The employee was required to ring up every transaction on the register, and when the total key was pushed, the drawer opened and a bell would ring, alerting the manager to a sale taking place. Those original machines were nothing but simple adding machines.

Keywords

cash register, till, receipt, point of sale, POS, recording sales, transactions, cash drawer, inventory

Galleries

Stores and Markets

Source

Government Printing Office The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1895)

Downloads

TIFF (full resolution)

2400×2326, 1.1 MiB

Large GIF

1024×992, 178.2 KiB

Medium GIF

640×620, 92.1 KiB

Small GIF

320×310, 29.8 KiB