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Dick, A(lbert) B(lake)
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| Inventor and businessman, born in Bureau Co, Illinois, USA. An agricultural implements salesman, in 1884 he opened a lumber company in Chicago. To ease the paperwork involved with inventorying stock, he invented a method for duplicating originals called the ‘autographic stencil’. He sold the lumber yard (1887) to collaborate with Thomas Edison in the invention of the Edison-Dick mimeograph machine. The A B Dick Co devoted all its resources to improving the machine, and by the time of his death the mimeograph was almost entirely automatic, dominating the field of office copying until the introduction of the xerographic process. |
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