Definition of mimeograph

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An invention of Thomas A. Edison, a machine for making printed copies, using typed stencil, ubiquitous until the 1990s when photocopying became competitive (if not cheaper), and considerably easier to use.

1910 So it also is in regard to the , whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877. He had been long impressed by the desirability of the rapid production of copies of written documents, and, as we have seen by a previous chapter, he invented the electric pen for this purpose, only to improve upon it later with a more desirable device " Frank Lewis Dyer & Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison, His Life and Inventions, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=286715827&textreg=2&query=mimeograph&id=Dye2Edi Chapter 27.

To make mimeograph copies.

1919 Even the ultra-respectable "Evening Transcript", organ of the Brahmins of culture, was down for $144 for typing, mimeographing and sending out "dope" to the country press. " Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=580541099&tag=Sinclair,+Upton,+1878-1968:+The+Profits+of+Religion:+An+Essay+in+Economic+Interpretation,+1918&query=mimeograph&id=SinProf Book 4.

Etymology: Coined by w: Albert Blake Dick, A.B. Dick in 1889 and originally a trade name.<br>Greek mimos, combining form mimeo + -graph

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