When you buy a six-pack at the legendary Hudson House bar in Beach Haven, NJ, they will ring you up on this ancient cash register. Which makes perfect sense since the cash register was invented by a saloonkeeper in order to stop employees from skimming cash from the drawer. Patented in 1883 by James Ritty, he called it the "Incorruptible Cashier" and as far as we know, the machine did not corrupt. But the operator, after a few drinks...

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