Inventor. A skilled mechanic, he built the first practical cash register with the help of his brother James, and patented the design in 1879 as "Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier". The Ritty brothers opened a small factory in Dayton, Ohio to manufacture cash registers. The company did not prosper and was sold to a group of investors including Jacob H. Eckert of Cincinnati, Ohio, a china and glassware salesman who formed the National Manufacturing Company, and John and Frank Patterson, who were then in the coal and railroad business. John Ritty would go on to patent several machines for the hulling of green corn and set up a canning factory in which they were used, and he operated a restaurant and cafe.
Inventor. A skilled mechanic, he built the first practical cash register with the help of his brother James, and patented the design in 1879 as "Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier". The Ritty brothers opened a small factory in Dayton, Ohio to manufacture cash registers. The company did not prosper and was sold to a group of investors including Jacob H. Eckert of Cincinnati, Ohio, a china and glassware salesman who formed the National Manufacturing Company, and John and Frank Patterson, who were then in the coal and railroad business. John Ritty would go on to patent several machines for the hulling of green corn and set up a canning factory in which they were used, and he operated a restaurant and cafe.
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