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Mimeograph
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- 1 A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying. historical
"So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, 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"
- 2 a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo) wordnet
- 1 To make mimeograph copies.
"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."
- 2 print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph wordnet
Etymology
Coined by A. B. Dick in 1889 and originally a trade name. From Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos), combining form mimeo + -graph.
Coined by A. B. Dick in 1889 and originally a trade name. From Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos), combining form mimeo + -graph.
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