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The first practical electric motor — in a tattoo gun?

Do you have any tattoos? If so, you can probably thank Thomas Edison. In 1875, Edison and his team invented a device that was the first practical application of the electric motor. His portable copy machine never was a huge success, but it did have long-lasting implications. How did it work? What was its history? And what does any of …

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