A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES
FOR THE STUDY OF NCR HISTORY
Allyn, Stanley C. My Half-Century with NCR. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
Anderson, William S., with Charles Truax. Corporate Crisis: NCR and the Computer Revolution. Dayton, Ohio: Landfall Press, 1991.
Armstrong, Theodore. Our Company: by an NCR Man. Dayton, Ohio: N.C.R. Co., 1949.
Bernstein, Mark D. Grand Eccentrics: Turning the Century: Dayton and the Inventing of America. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press, 1996.
Brevoort, Kenneth and Howard R. Marvel. "Successful Monopolization Through Predation: The National Cash Register Company." Working Paper, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, 1999. (full text)
Carson, Gerald. "The Machine that Kept Them Honest." American Heritage 17 (August 1966): 50-59.
Conover, Charlotte Reeve. Builders in New Fields. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1939.
Cortada, James W. Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs and Remington Rand and the Industry they Created, 1865-1956. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Crane, Frank. Business and Kingdom Come. New York: Forbes Co., 1912.
Crowther, Samuel. John H. Patterson: Pioneer in Industrial Welfare. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1923.
Dalton, Curt. Keeping the Secret: The WAVES and NCR: Dayton, Ohio 1943-1946.
Dayton, Ohio: C. Dalton, 1997.
"Doubts About Cash Register Sins." Literary Digest 50 (March 1915): 678.
Friedman, Walter A. "John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884-1922." Business History Review 72 (1998): 553-85.(excerpt)
Johnson, Roy W. and Lynch, Russell W. The Sales Strategy of John H. Patterson, Founder of the National Cash Register Company. Chicago: Dartnell Corporation, 1932.
"Living with 'The Cash'." Dayton Daily News, special supplement, 24 February 1991.
Marcosson, Isaac F. Colonel Deeds, Industrial Builder. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1947.
_____. Wherever Men Trade: The Romance of the Cash Register. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1945.
Nelson, Daniel. "The New Factory System and the Unions: The N.C.R. Company Strike of 1901." Labor History 15 (1974): 163-78.
Patterson, John H. "How I Get My Ideas Across." In Krass, Peter, ed. The Book of Leadership: Classic Writings by Legendary Business Leaders. New York: John Wiley, 1998, pp. 351-65.
_____. Letters from Abroad. Dayton, Ohio: N.C.R. Co., 1902.
_____. What Dayton, Ohio Should Do to Become a Model City. Dayton, Ohio: N.C.R. Co., 1907.
Rodgers, William. Think: A Biography of the Watsons and IBM. New York: Stein and Day, 1969.
Schleppi, John R. "'It Pays': John H. Patterson and Industrial Recreation at the National Cash
Register Company." Journal of Sport History 6 (1979): 20-28.
Sealander, Judith. Grand Plans: Business Progressivism and Social Change in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890-1929. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
Sharts, Joseph W. Biography of Dayton; An Economic Interpretation of Local History. Dayton, Ohio: Miami Valley Socialist, 1922.
Thomas, Alfred A., comp. How the Factory Grew and What It Does: Being Told in Notes by its Officers and Others. Dayton, Ohio: N.C.R. Co., 1905.
_____. The Temptations of Employes Who Handle Money. Dayton, Ohio: N.C.R. Co., 1905.
Thompson, Merle R. Trust Dissolution. Boston: R. Badger, 1919.
Tolman, William H. Social Engineering: A Record of Things Done by American Industrialists Employing Upwards of One and One-Half Millions of People. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1909.
_____. Temple of Hygiene: How a Manufacturing Concern Promotes Industrial Hygiene. Washington, D.C.: International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, 1912.
Tone, Andrea. The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Tracy, Lena Harvey. How My Heart Sang: The Story of Pioneer Industrial Welfare Work.
New York: R.R. Smith, 1950.
Wildman, Edwin. "Morality in Business: John H. Patterson of Dayton, Ohio." Forum 62
(August 1919): 158-68
