James Goodfellow
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James Goodfellow OBE (born 1937 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish inventor. He patented Personal Identification Number (PIN) technology,[1] and is widely acknowledged as the inventor of Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) technology, although John Shepherd-Barron also had a large part to play in their development.
He was a development engineer given the project of developing an automatic cash dispenser in 1965. His system accepted a machine readable encrypted card, with a numerical PIN keypad. - UK Patent No.1,197,183 - May 2, 1966. His machine was tested a month later than one developed by John Shepherd Barron.
In 2006 Goodfellow was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his invention of the Personal Identification Number.[2]
[edit] See also
- Kelvin Hughes, Goodfellow's employer
- Scottish inventions and discoveries
[edit] References
- ^ "it was Goodfellow who came up with the idea of a four-digit PIN which would allow people to access their cash". The Scotsman. 15 September 2007. http://heritage.scotsman.com/scotlandsgreatestinventor/So-whose-razorsharp-mind-has.3327125.jp. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
- ^ "Royal honour for inventor of Pin". BBC. 2006-06-16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5087984.stm. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
[edit] External links
- James Goodfellow, entry at the Gazetteer for Scotland
- "Who invented the ATM machine? - The James Goodfellow Story", at atmmachine.com
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