February 22, 2002
Jamming Together: Remembering the Ditto
Recently, on one of those "today in history" moments that are the total of television's nod to educational content, I discovered that it was the 125th anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of the mimeograph machine. The broadcaster described it as a predecessor of the copy machine, an explanation that failed to capture the device in all its inky glory. He neglected to mention that the mimeograph and its malicious cousin, the ditto machine, were the voices of the progressive movement of the
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