IDEA OF THE CASH REGISTER.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 931, 10 June 1914, Page 1

IDEA OF THE CASH REGISTER.

It Came to tin OJplo Man While H< Was W»t«jhln K the Maohtmerr ( of an Ocean Itoamcr.

"A hotel keeper watching the machinery of a big ocean steamer working in midocean received'a mental suggestion that resulted in the "modern cbbli register," said C. Q. Eakihi'of Ihiyton, 0. "The inventor of the first cash' register was 'Jake' Itittie, a hotel keeper, of Dayton, 0., according to the Kansas City Times. He was on the way to Europe several years ago, when he was -invited to look at the machinery that propelled the steamer that was conveying him across the sea. The chief engineer showed the hotel man the apparatus that registered the number of revolutions of the propeller. .

" 'Why wouldn't the same idea be a good thing to, keep track of a cash account?' the hotel man asked. 'I am on my way to Europe, and some of nay employes might be robbing me back in Dayton. If I could invent a machine to keep a cash account I would make a fortune.' The h'otel man hurried home to begin work on a cash register. He did ,not take his trip through Europe, but took an early steamer homeward bound.

"The modern cash register is the result of the idea the Dayton hotel man caught while watching the machinery of an ocean steamer. Of course, improvements in cash register* are made every month, but the principle of all of them is the same."- j