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  2. Supertank printer - Wikipedia

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    Supertank printers are a type of continuous ink system (CISS) inkjet printer.Supertank printers differ from traditional inkjet printers in that the printhead is connected via a tube system that draws ink from large ink tanks built into the printer, which are filled and refilled via ink bottles, eliminating the need for ink cartridges.

  3. Cai Lun - Wikipedia

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    Of those who originated China's Four Great Inventions of the ancient world—the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing—only the inventor of papermaking, Cai Lun, is known. [81] Additionally, in comparison to other Chinese inventions such as the writing brush and ink, the development of paper is the best documented in literary sources. [6]

  4. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    Rotary printing press [303] 2006 Robert S. Langer: 1948 Drug delivery [304] 2006 Robert W. Gore: 1937 Gore-Tex [305] 2006 Robert Fulton: 1765 Steamboat [306] 2006 Samuel Colt: 1814 Colt revolver with interchangeable parts [307] 2006 Seth Boyden: 1788 Process for making malleable iron [308] 2006 Simon Ingersoll: 1818 Steam powered rock drill ...

  5. Four Great Inventions - Wikipedia

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    Gunpowder, compass, and printing—these are the three major inventions that foretell the arrival of bourgeois society. Gunpowder blasted the knight class to pieces, the compass opened the world market and established colonies, and printing became a tool of Protestantism.

  6. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Kiepach (1894–1915), Croatia – dynamo, maritime compass that indicates north regardless of the presence of iron or magnetic forces; Mary Dixon Kies (1752-1837), U.S. - new technique of weaving straw with silk and thread to make hats; Erhard Kietz (1909–1982), Germany & U.S. – signal improvements for video transmissions [5]

  7. Thermofax - Wikipedia

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    Tattoo artists use these spirit masters as tattoo stencils, to quickly and accurately mark the outlines of a tattoo on the skin of the person to be tattooed using a transfer solution. Textile and Printmaking artists use these machines for creating silk screens in several seconds by running a piece of Riso film through with a photocopied image.

  8. Tattoo machine - Wikipedia

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    Mechanically, there are coil tattoo machines; also pneumatic machines, and rotary, or linear, tattoo machines. Rotary tattoo machines were the original machines, based on rotary technology, which was invented by Samuel O'Reilly and improved by the tattoo artists through the years. Rotary type machines use an electric motor to drive the needles.

  9. Bi Sheng - Wikipedia

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    Bi Sheng (972–1051) was a Chinese artisan and engineer during the Song dynasty (960–1279), who invented the world's first movable type. Bi's system used fired clay tiles, one for each Chinese character, and was invented between 1039 and 1048. Printing was one of the Four Great Inventions. Because Bi was a commoner, not an educated person ...