What is an electric pen?

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electric pen is the invention of Thomas Edison from 1875, which was intended as an office need and is the first safe appliance with an engine for sale on the market. This invention - a pen with a needle inside - was made to use templates to duplicate the document. When the user wrote a document with a pen, the needle would go up and down, perforate the sheet and to be prepared as a template used for copying. Although seemingly useful, it was not sold well because the batteries used to power the electric pen were chaotic and dangerous; Before the battery technology could overcome this problem, others created electric pens without batteries. Edison's pen was later modified and became the first electric tattoo needle. First, the user would have to write a document using an electric pen that would create a small hole in the paper. The user would then place the paper in the press, which was included in the pen, and used an inkjet cylinder on a template. The paper below it would catch an ink and createHe said a copy of the handwritten document.

For the power of the pen was a cast iron stand with batteries of wet cells. These batteries hindered the sale of electric pen for many reasons. Wet cell batteries have holes to release the poisonous gas created in generating energy and were dirty. Less chaotic batteries used by telegraph machines were soon placed in a machinery for an electric pen, but that meant that the telegraph operators were the only ones to experience enough to use the pen.

While the batteries were a problem, Edison's invention was initially able to land somewhat successful sales. In addition to sales in America, Edison sold an electric pen on the international market. The pen was sold and licensed for use in southamerics, Cuba, Asia and Europe that led to its initial success.

The electric pen in 1880 dropped because the new market was born from Edison's invention. New mechanThe top pen bypassed the biggest problem with Edison's pen: battery. As a result, the other pens were desirable and Edison's invention soon lost all the market traction. Sold the rights of the invention A.B. Dick who turned it into Edison Mimeograph. Samuel O'Reilly modified the pen in the 90s of the 20th century and created the first electric tattoo needle.