Schapyrograph
The Schapyrograph was one of the first systems for copying after the copying press by James Watt , the mimeograph by Thomas Alva Edison and the hectograph by Kwaisser and Husak .
It was made at the end of the 19th century. In a wooden box, a rubberized roll (similar to a roll of wallpaper) was placed in a recess on the right and left and pulled over the area in between.
A document written in ink was placed face down on the surface and pressed onto the rubberized roller with a hand roller. The ink then rubbed into the rubber surface. Now you put a piece of white paper on this impression and rolled off the hand roller so that a copy was made. You could now wipe the surface of the rubber roller or, if there was little time, continue rolling the roller to the next free area.
The Schapyrograph was in an approximately 50 cm by 35 cm wooden box with a lid and a small drawer and two compartments for a roller, ink and pen.
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- ↑ A device was already usable in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1896, cf. Advertisement in the Freiburger Zeitung of October 7, 1896 , accessed December 30, 2010