1960s National Cash Register. As a mechanical item it may never die, unless someone deliberately damages it.

It is amazing inside. To see what is put in play when you depress a number key is just magical. I am in awe of the guy that invented the inner works and also in awe of the manufacturing and assembly process.

And then there is the number tower. They must have found someone from an insane asylum to invent that. I watched it activate when I pressed a number key and just started to laugh. I couldn’t believe that someone had worked this process out, its all cogs and rods.

I wish I had the courage to pull it apart and dream that I could reassemble it. Great little register inside and out.