No copy... it’s the real thing

US: ON August 15 1876, nearly ten years after his fellow American inventor Christopher Scholes had offered the world its first ever typewriter, Thomas Edison patented an electric method for the small businessman to print and copy several documents.

The electric pen was driven by a small, but nonetheless cumbersome bipolar electric motor wired up t…

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