Cash+Register

**//__ Cash Register __//** **Josh: Wow are you James Ritty?**
 * //__ Matt and Josh __//**

**Matt: Yes I am James Ritty and where am I?**

**Josh: You are in 2012.**

**Matt: Wow it has been a long time.**
 * Josh: What was a cash register in the 1800s? **

**Matt:** **A cash register was a machine that recorded the amount of a sale as the transaction was made.**

**Matt: Is a cash register like that today?**

**Josh: Yes, the cash register is like that today.**

**Josh: The cash register was invented by James Ritty who invented it in 1879. is that you and is that correct?**

**Matt: Yes I am James Ritty and that is correct. I invented the cash register in 1879.** **Josh: How was the cash drawer opened in 1879?**

**Matt: Payment was placed in a cash drawer and when the sale was registered the draw opened.** **Josh: Where did the amount of payment appear?**

**Matt: When a sale was registered on the register the amount appeared on a large dial on the front of the machine.The sale was also recorded within the cash register as a series of holes punched on a roll of paper tape. The cashier totaled the sales by adding together the rows of holes.**

**Matt: what does the cash register do today?**

**Josh: Today a cash register performs these functions and it also calculates the sale when a customer purchases several items. It also makes a printed record of each sale and the place where it was made. A cash register records if the sale was paid for with cash or is to be charged, and prints the details of the sale on a recept. Cash registers are used in supermarkets and also automatically calculate the sales tax on taxable items as they are recorded and add the tax to the sales total and some models can also calculate change.Special printed numbers that can be read by a computer have been developed for the cash register.**

**Matt: Well the cash register does a lot more then it used to.**

**Matt: Where is the cash register used today?**

**Josh: The cash register are used in public places like super markets, malls, stores and ect.**

**Josh: That is how the invention is used today.**





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