Edison's Electric Pen

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Edison's electric pen.

(P. 249.)

Artist

Name:: Unknown

Illustration

Subject:: Science & Technology
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Blanadet, Jules
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Les récréations scientifiques
Author:: Tissandier, Gaston
Publisher:: Paris: G. Masson, n.d. [1884]

Description:

A hand is seen writing on a stencil with Edison’s electric pen connected to a wet cell battery. Edison’s electric pen was a device used for duplicating handwritten or hand-drawn documents.

The caption reads in the original French: Plume électrique d’Edison, avec sa pile.

Caption taken from the English edition titled Popular scientific recreations in natural philosophy, astronomy, geology, chemistry. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., n.d. [ca. 1882].

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