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Inventor of first cash machine dies at 84

LONDON — A Scotsman credited with inventing the world’s first automatic cash machine has died at the age of 84 after a short illness, his funeral director has said. John Shepherd-Barron died peacefully in hospital in Inverness, Scotland, on Saturday, said funeral director Alasdair Rhind. He started thinking about how to obtain cash outside business …

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