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===Expansion===
NCR expanded quickly and became multi-national in 1888.  Between 1893 and 1906 it acquired a number of smaller cash register companies.<ref>{{cite book |chapter= Successful Monopolization Through Predation: The National Cash Register Company |editor-first= J.B. |editor-last= Kirkwood |title= Antitrust Law and Economics |location= New York |publisher= Elsevier |year= 2004 |first1= Kenneth |last1= Brevoort |first2= Howard P. |last2= Marvel |chapter-url= https://www.thecorememory.com/The_NCR.pdf |access-date= December 24, 2007 |name-list-style= amp |archive-date= May 28, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080528102924/https://www.thecorememory.com/The_NCR.pdf |url-status= dead }}</ref>

By 1911 it had sold one million machines and had grown to almost 6,000 employees. Combined with rigorous legal attacks, Patterson's methods enabled the company to fight off bankruptcy, buy-out over 80 of its early competitors, and achieve control of 95% of the U.S. market.

In 1912 the company was found guilty of violating the [[Sherman Antitrust Act]]. Patterson, Deeds, Watson and 25 other NCR executives and managers were convicted of illegal anti-competitive sales practices and were sentenced to one year of imprisonment. Their convictions were unpopular with the public due to the efforts of Patterson and Watson to help those affected by the Dayton, Ohio, [[Great Dayton Flood|floods of 1913]], but efforts to have them pardoned by President [[Woodrow Wilson]] were unsuccessful. However, their convictions were overturned on appeal in 1915 on the grounds that important defense evidence should have been admitted.

In 1918, the company signed a contract with the [[US Army]] to produce 100,000 [[M1911 pistol]]s for use in [[World War I]]. The contract was canceled a few months later after the war ended, with no pistols having been delivered.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rare NRA Springfield Armory 1911 Pistol |url=https://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-galleries/world-war-i-and-firearms-innovation/case-32-wwi-america-and-the-allies/rare-nra-springfield-armory-1911-pistol.aspx |website=NRA Museum |access-date=20 September 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Uncle Sam asks NCR for War Production Slogans - NARA - 534249.jpg|thumb|WWII NCR poster]]
Two million cash register units were sold by 1922, the year John Patterson died. In January, 1926, NCR went public with an issue of $55 million in stock, at that time the largest public offering in United States history. During the first World War, NCR manufactured fuses and aircraft instrumentation, and during [[World War II]] built aero-engines, bomb sights and code-breaking machines, including the American [[bombe]] designed by [[Joseph Desch]].

====US Navy Bombe, code breaking machine====
The [[US Navy Bombe]] was built by NCR for the [[United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory]] to decrypt the [[Enigma machine]] that encrypted German military messages.

The NCR-made American bombes (decryption machines) were faster, and soon more available, than the British bombes at Bletchley Park and its outstations. 
 
The American bombe was essentially the same as the English bombe, though it functioned better (six times faster) as they were not handicapped by having to make it, as Keen was forced to do owing to production difficulties, on the framework of a three-wheel machine. By late autumn 1943, new American machines were coming into action at the rate of about two a week, the ultimate total being in the region of 125.<ref>Mahon, A.P. (1945), The History of Hut Eight 1939 - 1945, UK National Archives Reference HW 25/2, retrieved 10 December 2009 | url=http://www.ellsbury.com/hut8/hut8-000.htm</ref>