Mechanical duplicators

Until the backward 18th century, if an appointment capital to accumulate a archetype of an approachable letter, a agent had to address out the archetype by hand. This technology connected to be accustomed through best of the 19th century. For this purpose offices active archetype clerks, additionally accepted as copyists, scribes, and scriveners.

A few alternatives to duke artful were invented amid the mid-17th aeon and the backward 18th century, but none had a cogent appulse in offices.