Who invented tattoo gun

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When the electric pen was released and marketed to the public it ended up being a dud. The needles would pass through ink gathered into the ink reservoir as they perforated the skin and the tattoo machine was born.

One interesting thing about the machine is that it could hold between one and five needles at a time; thus showing that artists wanted the ability to create broader lines when the situation called for them.

O'Reilly's blueprints for the first patented tattoo machine. As we now know, the tattoo machine completely revolutionized the industry and made tattooing notably easier for the artist. Soon the tattoo machine would become the standard in the industry. He continued to tattoo out of a shop in New York City until his death in The differences between O'Reilly's machine and the machines artists are using today are minor, but they represent over a century of fine tuning. Artists are always making adaptations to their machines to help them create the best art that they can and these changes will get passed down as new machines are produced.

The process could be used to mass produce books or newspapers much more quickly than ever before, and it led to the spreading of knowledge throughout the world. However, using a printing press was cumbersome and labor intensive — and it required the possession of a printing press. What if the average person wanted to make copies of important documents? In the s, an Italian named Eugenio de Zuccato received a patent for a process that used corrosive ink to create a stencil that could then be used to reproduce handwriting.

The papyrograph process was rather involved , using lacquer-coated paper and a modified letter press, but the idea was key. If there were an easier way to create and use stencils, perhaps they were the key to home copying. Enter Thomas Edison and his assistant, Charles Batchelor. Their goal was to use their vast knowledge of electricity to create a device that could use stencils to simply and easily produce copies of handwriting.

The electric pen was born.