First ATM appeared in 1967 at Barclays Bashny.Net

Almost 50 years ago, Barclays Bank opened the first machine to issue cash in Enfield in north London. ATM cards are not accepted, and paper vouchers. Issuance of funds are limited to 10 pounds.





ATM, or Automated Teller Machine, was created Scot John Shepherd-Barron. Inventor somehow could not withdraw money from your account due to the fact that the bank branch was closed. The creation of an ATM Shepard-Barron inspired vending machine with chocolates: that's only instead of sweets in a car were to be based on money.

In 2005, John Shepherd-Barron received the Order of the British Empire. A year later, another inventor, engineer James Goodfellow, received the same award as the creator of the PIN-code.

Actor Reg Verni participated in the campaign - he first tested the car for yourself.



To obtain funds needed to use the bank issued paper vouchers. Limit for the issuance of 10 pounds at a time would be enough to have a great weekend. In the voucher was embedded element impregnated with carbon-14 - slaboreaktivnym composition. This element carrying information on PIN-code that the customer enters via the keyboard.



Now the number of ATMs in the world it is very difficult to count - they are in the most remote corners of the planet. For Russia, such statistics are also available, but you can see the rating of banks by the number of ATMs in the country as of January 1, 2013. At the beginning of 2012, Russia in the number of cars per 1,000 people occupy a leading position in Europe - 1, 3 pieces, in the UK the figure is 0, 8, and in Sweden - 0, 38 ATMs are even at the South Pole (pictured below) .







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