ANTIQUE THOMAS EDISON - 1887 1ST PRODUCTION MODEL "0" EDISON'S MIMEOGRAPH "BOX"

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ANTIQUE THOMAS EDISON
1887 1ST PRODUCTION
A. B. DICK COMPANY  MODEL "0"
EDISON'S MIMEOGRAPH HISTORY
COURTESY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Before the laser printer, before the Xerox, and before the carbon copy, there was the mimeograph machine. In 1876, Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) filed a United States patent for autographic printing by means of an electric pen. A second patent further developed his system to “prepare autographic stencils for printing.”
Albert Blake Dick (1856-1934) licensed the patent and began manufacturing equipment to make stencils for the reproduction of hand-written text. In 1887, the A.B. Dick Company released the model “0” flatbed duplicator selling for . It was an immediate success. Dick named the machine The Edison Mimeograph.
Dick’s hinged, wooden box, measuring 13 x 10 ¾ x 4 ½ inches, has a large stenciled label on the top reading “The Edison Mimeograph invented by Thomas A. Edison, made by A.B. Dick Company, Chicago, Ill.”
A series of patents are noted on the label, the last dated 1890.
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AUCTION IS FOR OAK BOX ONLY
OAK BOX IN BEAUTIFUL SHAPE. BOX RETAINS 99%
OF THE LARGE COLORFUL STENCILED LABEL TOP.
PHOTO #9 AND #10 SHOWS A SPLIT ON THE BOTTOM OF
THE OAK BOX THAT RUNS THROUGH ONE SIDE OF BOX
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