


Telephone Credit Authorization system for verifying credit in department stores. Within a few years he developed the Class 1000 register which was in production for 40 years, and the O.K. Kettering designed the first cash register powered by an electric motor in 1906. "THINK" later became a widely known symbol of IBM, which was created by Watson after he joined the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR). Signs with this motto were later erected in NCR factory buildings, sales offices and club rooms during the mid-1890s. We don't get paid for working with our feet - we get paid for working with our heads". At an uninspiring sales meeting, Watson interrupted, saying "The trouble with every one of us is that we don't think enough. Watson-later fired by Patterson in 1914-eventually worked his way up to general sales manager. Other significant figures in the early history of the company were Thomas J. He established the first sales training school in 1893 and introduced a comprehensive social welfare program for his factory workers. Patterson formed NCR into one of the first modern American companies by introducing new, aggressive sales methods and business techniques. In 1884, the company and patents were bought by John Henry Patterson and his brother Frank Jefferson Patterson, and the firm was renamed the National Cash Register Company. The company began as the National Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio, and was established to manufacture and sell the first mechanical cash register invented in 1879 by James Ritty.


Old National Cash Register on display at the Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público in Mexico City
