MACHINE THAT THINKS.
A machine that calculates change, delivers the right amount to the customer in a fraction of a second, and totals up the money received for the day or week was seen at the recent Inventors' Exhibi-
It is different from a machine that simply pays out money from a keyboard. The new invention does more—it does the thinking for the cashier or shopkeeper. If, for example, someone tenders £1 for a farthing bill, the operator presses the £1 stop key and the farthing sales key, and the machine delivers 19/11}, including a neatly folded ten shilling note and a dated receipt. A bell rings when a coin magazine is setting empty.
Two years were spent on drawings and calculations before a model was made, for there are 949 different amounts of money in the change for a one pound note, and several thousand different combinations in all of the tenders possible of one pound and less.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 7
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159MACHINE THAT THINKS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 7
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