Early Life
At a young age, Gestetner began work at the stock market in Vienna. One of his tasks was to make copies of the activity at the end of the day by repeatedly handwriting the results. He decided to try and find a better method, and his experiments eventually led him to invent the first method of reproducing documents by use of a stencil. He went on to work in Chicago making kites out of Chinese paper. He got the idea of a Duplicator machine after an ink spill accident. There was a pile of kites next to a pot of ink, and the ink toppled over and spilled onto the kites. He found that the same ink pattern remained throughout the pile.
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