The Secret Life of the Photocopier
James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, patented the first copying machine, because of the disastrous inaccuracies that had occurred due to copying drawings by hand. Drawings to be copied were written in a special ink which bled into the copy when squashed through a mangle.
SERIES 1:
vacuum
cleaner 
sewing
machine central
heating system washing
machine refrigerator
television
SERIES 2: car
internal
combustion engine
quartz watch
telephone
radio set
video
recorder
SERIES 3: fax
machine
lift
word
processor
electric
light
photocopier
the
office
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