[Adran] wanted to be able to accurately cut out a bunch of the same parts out of wood but didn’t have the cash to spend on buying or building an automated CNC machine. After thinking about it ...

and so on before the modern copy machine became widespread in the 1980s. Other early duplicating machines include the mimeograph, the hectograph, and the cyclostyle.

which can produce 40 copies of a one-page document in minutes compared to the lengthy seven-step process of traditional offset duplicating. It highlights the machine's ability to create new ...