ATM Installed In Meghalaya Hospital Where Inventor Was Born In 1925

Shepherd-Barron came up with the concept of a self-service cash dispenser in 1965 and his "eureka" moment was inspired by a machine dispensing chocolate bars.

A hospital in Meghalaya, where ATM inventor John Adrian Shepherd-Barron was born in 1925, has got an automated teller machine after 53 years of the first installation of such cash dispenser globally, an official of the health facility said on Tuesday. The ATM was installed at Dr H Gordon Roberts Hospital, which will turn 100 next year, he said. "The teller machine was installed on August 7 after a petition was submitted to State Bank of India for setting up an ATM on the premises before the centennial celebrations of our facility next year," Medical Superintendent of the hospital Dr Roken Nongrum told PTI. The access to an ATM in the facility will help patient parties and staffers immensely, he said.