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mimeograph

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Edison mimeograph machine (1889)

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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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mimeograph (plural mimeographs)

  1. (historical) A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying.
    • 1910, Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin, chapter 27, in Edison, His Life and Inventions‎[1]:
      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
    • 1956 November 8, Alexander R. Hammer, “Duplicator Still The ‘Work Horse’”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:
      The old “work horse” of the office, the mimeograph, was a starred performer at the National Business Show, which was recently held at the New York Coliseum. Although glamour equipment such as the electronic computers have had most of the headlines in recent years, the mimeograph machine is still grinding out billions of copies of material a year.

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mimeograph (third-person singular simple present mimeographs, present participle mimeographing, simple past and past participle mimeographed)

  1. To make mimeograph copies.
    • 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] ‎[3]:
      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.

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