The success of currency dispensers in the 1960s was the technological precondition for the now omnipresent automated teller machines (ATMs). An examination of the three earliest separate instances of cash-dispensing technology not only illuminates the history of this device but demonstrates how users-in this case banks-shape and direct technological change.
['Bernardo Batiz-Lazo', 'Robert J. K. Reid']
The Development of Cash-Dispensing Technology in the UK