There were also three counters for recording separate totals of all charge sales, all money received on account, and money paid out. At the end of a day's business, each clerk made a report of the cash in his drawer and the total was checked against the register total. Multiple-drawer cash registers were first used in 1899 as a result of requests from merchants who wanted to provide individual responsibility to the employees by providing a separate cash drawer for each clerk. This ten-drawer machine is brass on an oak base, separated by a marble slab. This particular model was first produced in 1905 and was the first to be equipped with an electric motor. The National Cash Register Company, based in Dayton, Ohio manufactured this Model 500 cash register in 1910. Manufactured by the National Cash Register Company, 1910
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