Albert Dick Explained
Albert Blake Dick (April 16, 1856 – August 15, 1934) was a businessman who founded the A. B. Dick Company, a major American copier manufacturer and office supply company of the 20th Century.[1] He coined the word "mimeograph".[2]
Dick attended school in Galesburg, Illinois, then worked successively for the Brown manufacturing company, Deere & Mansur, and the Moline Lumber Company. He founded the A. B. Dick Company in 1883. It was originally a lumber company before branching into office supplies.[1]
Dick lived in Lake Forest, Illinois.[1] He died at his home there on August 15, 1934.[3]
Further reading
- Buck, Glen. Fifty Years 1884-1934, A. B. Dick Company. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1934. (with drawings by Rockwell Kent and photographs by Torkel Korling.)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Men of Affairs . 1906 . Chicago Evening Post. August 11, 2011.
- Owen, David (2004). Copies in seconds: how a lone inventor and an unknown company created the biggest communication breakthrough since Gutenberg: Chester Carlson and the birth of the Xerox machine. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 44.
- News: Albert B. Dick . . Chicago . AP . 3 . 1934-08-17 . 2020-01-27 . Newspapers.com.
