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Atm Anniversary

NPR
Published September 23, 1995 at 11:00 PM CDT

Jacki speaks with Don Wetzel, inventor of the Automatic Teller Machine about his invention. This week the Smithsonian Institution added an ATM machine to it's collection of 20th century artifacts. Wetzel says that last year alone, more than 8-billion transactions were conducted using ATM's.

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