National Cash Register Corporation

02/17/2026

Just a reminder: This is not a business, but a tribute page to what used to be the greatest employer for the people in and around Dayton, Ohio.

04/04/2025

https://youtu.be/f70HDXKb-3o?si=4WEP4GiMn6fCdfvH

NCR had embraced fully electronic cash registers by the 70's but before that it was purely a masterpiece of mechanical design.Here is a machine sold in the 6...

04/04/2025

https://youtu.be/jH4rlpgtbms?si=uo4e1-IcajVu888U

Two mechanical National Cash Register machines: model 711 from 1925, and model 122(2) from 1953. This is episode 78 of my video series about old calculating ...

03/25/2025

https://youtu.be/bdSSEkIZRe4?si=m1zrQKNiprt9nE5f

NCR Computer History: An overview of early NCR Computers. National Cash Register Company was one of the largest cash register and calculating machine compa...

12/31/2017

03/28/2017

01/30/2017

Joseph Desch came into the world at the right place and time to become an inventor–he was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1907, just 4 years after the Wright Brothers historic flight, and about a mile from their Cycle Shop. He grew up at a time when Dayton was teeming with tinkerers and craftsmen. His grand...