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Dick, A(lbert) B(lake) (1856–1934)| US inventor and businessman. After inventing a duplicating method, he collaborated with Thomas Edison in the invention of the Edison-Dick mimeograph. His company produced an automatic mimeograph that dominated office copying until the introduction of the xerographic process. |
| He was born in Bureau County, Illinois. An agricultural implements salesman, he started a lumber company in Chicago. To ease the paperwork involved in the inventory of stock, he invented a method for duplicating originals called the ‘autographic stencil’. He sold the lumberyard in order to work with Edison. The A B Dick Company devoted all its resources to improving the mimeograph machine and, by the time of his death, it was almost entirely automatic. |
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