Nice Place to Work The National Cash Register Company expands very rapidly, buying out 80 early competitors to corner the market. With 6,000 employees, it sells a million machines in the first 15 years. Its new manufacturing facility contains innovations designed to create a healthy, happy working environment, with huge windows, allowing lots of fresh air to circulate. It's a worker's dream.

	Many Steps to Make a Product Making a successful product involves a surprising number of separate operations. The first task is usually cutting out and shaping all the individual parts required. A cash register is somewhat similar to a typewriter, requiring many individual keys and linkages. Some perform the mathematical addition of prices for each item, while others display the result in pop-up numbers at the top of the register. Some parts, like the ornate housing, might require additional operations, such as polishing or plating.
	Refined Life When the workday is over, employees return to living quarters just a stroll away that would arouse jealousy anywhere else in America. Not since the first days of the textile mills, almost a century earlier, have workers been offered such comfortable digs.