BBC NEWS | Business | The man who invented the cash machine

"They're clever scoundrels," fumes John Shepherd-Barron at his remote farmhouse in northern Scotland. He is referring to the seals which are raiding his salmon farm and stealing fish. "I invented a device to scare them off by playing the sound of killer whales, but it's ended up only attracting them more." But failure with this device is in contrast to the success of his first and greatest inventi

[neco22b]

シャチの音ではうまくいかなかったもよう。

[mkusunok]

キャッシュディスペンサーの発明者って最近まで生きてたのね。そして最初は暗証番号を６桁にするつもりが奥さんの「４桁しか覚えられない」の一言で４桁に。これが4PINの発祥とは