Transcript: Smithsonian Honors ATM Inventor

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The Smithsonian Museum of American History is immortalizing the inventor of the automated teller machine. Jacki Lyden talks with Donald Wetsell [sp] about his contribution to banking technology.

JACKI LYDEN, Host: It's hard to believe, but there was life before the ATM card - the little plastic card that makes cash spout from a machine as if it were free. If only it were. ATM cards are probably a mixed blessing. You can get at your money so easily now that you can even withdraw it from another continent. The very first automatic teller machine was invented by a man named Donald Wetsell [sp]. He' s been recognized at last by the Smithsonian Museum of ...

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