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===Early years===
[[Image:Antique cash register.png|thumb|upright|Antique three-column full-keyboard cash register]]
[[Image:NatCashRegSHCP.JPG|thumb|upright|Old National Cash Register on display at the [[Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público]] in [[Mexico City]]]]
 
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]]. In 1884, the company and patents were bought by [[John Henry Patterson (NCR owner)|John Henry Patterson]] and his brother Frank Jefferson Patterson, and the firm was renamed the National Cash Register Company. Patterson formed NCR into one of the first modern American companies by introducing new, aggressive sales methods and business techniques. He established the first sales training school in 1893 and introduced a comprehensive social welfare program for his factory workers.

Other significant figures in the early history of the company were [[Thomas J. Watson|Thomas J. Watson, Sr.]], [[Charles F. Kettering]] and [[Edward A. Deeds]].

Watson—later fired by Patterson in 1914—eventually worked his way up to general sales manager. At an uninspiring sales meeting, Watson interrupted, saying "The trouble with every one of us is that we don't think enough. We don't get paid for working with our feet — we get paid for working with our heads". Watson then wrote [[Think (slogan)|'''THINK''']] on the easel.<ref>{{cite book|first= Thomas|last = Belden|author2=Belden, Marva |title = The Lengthening Shadow: The Life of Thomas J. Watson|url= https://archive.org/details/lengtheningshado00beld|url-access= registration|publisher = Little, Brown and Company|year= 1962 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/lengtheningshado00beld/page/157 157–8]}}</ref> Signs with this motto were later erected in NCR factory buildings, sales offices and club rooms during the mid-1890s. "THINK" later became a widely known symbol of IBM, which was created by Watson after he joined the [[Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company|Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR)]].<ref>Belden (1962) pp.84–87</ref>

Kettering designed the first cash register powered by an electric motor in 1906. Within a few years he developed the Class 1000 register which was in production for 40 years, and the O.K. Telephone Credit Authorization system for verifying credit in department stores.{{Citation needed|date=August 2008}}

Deeds and Kettering went on to found [[Delco Electronics|Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company]] which later became the [[Delco Electronics]] Division of [[General Motors]].

In 1913, the company's [[market share]] was dominant and it was successfully prosecuted under the [[Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890]]. The ruling was appealed and executives avoided at least some of the court's strictures.<ref>Streitfeld, David, [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/technology/tech-giants-antitrust-law.html "To Take Down Big Tech, They First Need to Reinvent the Law"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620220259/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/technology/tech-giants-antitrust-law.html |date=2019-06-20 }}, New York Times, June 20, 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-20.</ref>