EPISODE · Jun 24, 2026 · 1H 9M
Cash Registers and the Man Divinely Appointed to Build Them (1/2)
from Technology Blows · host Dan Slimmon
The 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 listicleHow one man's fall from a horse led to the entire world being poisoned with leaded gasolineHow many baked potatoes is too many baked potatoesReferences: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.pdfhttps://archive.org/details/johnhpattersonpi00crow/page/20/mode/2uphttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htmhttps://www.anchin.com/uploads/1413/doc/News_Rest-101Steal_FB.pdfhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20551940.2024.2307721St. 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.pdfhttps://www.brassregisters.com/fwl3/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/NCR-catalogue-1909-color-400-class.pdfhttps://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/incorruptable_cashier.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/llkUXxpIo20
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The 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 listicleHow one man's fall from a horse led to the entire world being poisoned with leaded gasolineHow many baked potatoes is too many baked potatoesReferences: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.pdfhttps://archive.org/details/johnhpattersonpi00crow/page/20/mode/2uphttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htmhttps://www.anchin.com/uploads/1413/doc/News_Rest-101Steal_FB.pdfhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20551940.2024.2307721St. 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.pdfhttps://www.brassregisters.com/fwl3/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/NCR-catalogue-1909-color-400-class.pdfhttps://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/incorruptable_cashier.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/llkUXxpIo20
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