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What (who) is mimeograph - definition

TYPE OF DUPLICATING MACHINE

Roneo; Mimeo machine; Mimeograph machine; Mimeographed; Stencil duplicator; Roneograph; Roneo Vickers; Roneo machine

mimeograph

¦ noun a duplicating machine which produces copies from a stencil, now superseded by the photocopier.

¦ verb make a copy of (a document) with a mimeograph.

Origin

C19: formed irregularly from Gk mimeomai 'I imitate' + -graph.

Mimeograph

·noun An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.

Mimeograph

A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator) is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The process is called mimeography, and a copy made by the process is a mimeograph.

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Mimeograph

A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator) is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The process is called mimeography, and a copy made by the process is a mimeograph.

Mimeographs, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, were common technologies for printing small quantities of a document, as in office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins. Early fanzines were printed by mimeograph because the machines and supplies were widely available and inexpensive. Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing into the 1970s, photocopying gradually displaced mimeographs, spirit duplicators, and hectographs.

For even smaller quantities, up to about five, a typist would use carbon paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph

Examples of use of mimeograph

1. In 1'55, the lanes moved from the West Wing basement to the Old Executive Office Building, now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, to make room for a mimeograph room.

2. Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. 1'40 –– Germany begins heavy bombing of Britain in World War II. 1'45 –– The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria six days before the Japanese surrender in World War II; President Truman signs the United Nations Charter.