The idea of a machine that allows performing banking transactions without cashier, occurred in 1939.
Then the American inventor of Armenian origin Luther George Simiyan registered 20 patents related to the device, and although the idea was met with skepticism, succeeds leadership of City Bank of New York (now known as Citibank) to test his invention. After six months, the bank shall notify the inventor that customers do not Proya interest.
Simiyan recognized his invention of failure.
"It seems the only people who used it were prostitutes and gamblers who do not want to deal with tellers face to face," he wrote later.
It took about 30 years before a return to the idea. The first ATM working round the clock appears at the end of June 1967 in a bank "Barclays" in north London. Its creator, Jonh Shepard-Barron got the idea when one day left without money and went to the bank, but it was closed. His device worked with paper vouchers received prior to the cashier of the bank. Shepherd-Barron never patented his discovery, but it quickly gained popularity - in 1968 the United States had created the first ATM of the modern type.
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