Post to the Host

Comments from the week of 10.03.21

About the photo in last week’s Post to the Host, where you refer to a mimeograph and show a spirit duplicator (Ditto) machine instead. The mimeograph (invented by Thomas Edison) was a silk-screen process where ink was forced through a wax stencil, which was cut on a typewriter; the Ditto machine involved typing a master on a sheet of paper with an anili…