The Heritage Center of Dayton Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship inside the Carillon Historical Park houses an NCR cash register room with 90 Dayton-made machines, the Build for Tomorrow Animatronic theater, the original Deeds barn, dozens of exhibits featuring Dayton Ohio’s factories and companies, and the Carousel of Dayton Innovation (a full scale hand-carved carousel featuring one-of-a-kind characters such as Orville Wright’s dog, a Dayton soap box derby car, and a soda can with the Dayton-made pop tart).
NOTE: A complete list of all the things you will see inside the is here.
Admission Fee
A $10 fee is required to see the museum. This fee includes all the historical buildings in the park.
Address
1000 Carillon Blvd, Dayton, Ohio 45409
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The Ritty Dial Fascimile is the oldest cash register on display. The machine was patented in 1879 and invented by James and Jacob Ritty in Dayton, Ohio.
Hundreds of these old and historic cash registers are on display.
Cash Register, 1893. This features a check printer in the middle of its face where a check or receipt could be inserted in the slot and the sale amount would be printed on the check.
An NCR cash register room with 90 Dayton-made machines.
A 1914 motorcycle from the Davis Sewing Machine Company.
This narrow gauge, saddle tank steam locomotive was built in 1898.
An old toy collection from Dorothy and Richard Cummings. Dayton, Ohio was once the toy capital of America.
An old Frigidaire. The Guardian Frigerator Company began production of this revolutionary new product in food preservation in 1916. Built by hand, manufacturing of early refrigerators was slow and laborious. Less than 40 of them were made in its first two years. Frigidaire established a production facility in Dayton, Ohio in 1921.
The Barrel Computing Scale (1811 to 1911).
Carousel of Dayton Innovation (a full scale hand-carved carousel featuring one-of-a-kind characters such as Orville Wright’s dog, a Dayton soap box derby car, and a soda can with the Dayton-made pop tart).
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