Brian Gray of Edison Pen Company in Milan, Ohio, at his desk in his machine shop. (Courtesy Edison Pen Company) MILAN -- Even if you couldn't care less about writing your name, when Brian Gray brings ...

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The object at hand resembles a fancy eggbeater. Squat and top-heavy, it blends Victorian style with Industrial Age utility. It is Thomas Edison's electric pen. By the time he got around to making it, ...

One of the few remaining Edison Electric Pens that was the first invention to have an electric motor is to be sold. In 1875 Thomas Edison launched the pen to allow multiple copies to be made from the ...

Electric pen: The electric pen was used to make copies of documents. An electric motor driving a small needle up and down the pen shaft created a stencil that could be placed in a press. Ink pushed ...