Show Vast tast Industry That Tha Had lad Small Wl When clI James Kitty nitty an nn obscure inventor Inventor In in- In sold a newfangled contrivance ance to the tho owner of a n mining store In n Co Coalton Ohio In the early caily earI ei the he transaction formed the foundation foundation tion for fora a business whose sales today run urn far Into the millions When I punched forcibly the device dt re registered regis regis- ls' ls on a n strip snip of paper the amounts of ot cash cush sales It It could not have ha cost more than 20 O 0 to make e and the price I was The mining store was steadily losing money yet et the Patterson Pat Patterson Pat Pat- terson brothers who owned It it bought two of the devices because the salesman recommended it as ns n a good thief During the Ue t nett year jear nn any apparent increase In turnover the thc business made a profit of 1 2000 One of the broth blOth ers era was the late Inte John II IT Patterson After three years ems had passed nt at p n time when hen the contrivance seemed an an assured failure he bought ought control of the manufacturing business for 0 G. G.- and renamed It the National r Cash Register company Silas Silas Bent Dent lu In Century Magazine |