Cash Registers and the Man Divinely Appointed to Build Them (1/2)
Download MP3The cash register: a machine invented because your boss doesn't trust you to count. Join me and my guest Daniel Ryan to learn:
- Why we can thank the father of cash registers for B2B sales, office cafeterias, and maybe even the Buzzfeed listicle
- How one man's fall from a horse led to the entire world being poisoned with leaded gasoline
- How many baked potatoes is too many baked potatoes
References:
- Conover, Charlotte Reeve. (1939). Builders in New Fields. G.P. Putnam's Sons.
- Crowther, Samuel. (1924). John H. Patterson: Pioneer in Industrial Welfare. Doubleday, Page & Company.
- Friedman, Walter A. (2004). Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Harvard University Press.
- https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/5d/2e/92/8bbb58c75ecb6a/US271363.pdf
- https://archive.org/details/johnhpattersonpi00crow/page/20/mode/2up
- https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm
- https://www.anchin.com/uploads/1413/doc/News_Rest-101Steal_FB.pdf
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20551940.2024.2307721
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 21, 1901, p. 11.
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 26, 1901, p. 44.
- https://www.brassregisters.com/fwl3/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1898-NCR-catalogue-Introduction-Terms.pdf
- https://www.brassregisters.com/fwl3/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/NCR-catalogue-1909-color-400-class.pdf
- https://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/incorruptable_cashier.html
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/llkUXxpIo20
