14 Facts About Gestetner

Gestetner is a type of duplicating machine named after its inventor, David Gestetner .

The Gestetner company established its base in London, filing its first patent in 1879.

In 1995, the Gestetner company was acquired by the Ricoh Corporation of Japan.

David Gestetner was born in Hungary in 1854, and after working in Vienna and New York, he moved to London, England, filing his first copying patent there in 1879.

The Gestetner works opened in 1906 at Tottenham Hale, north London, and employed several thousand people until the 1990s, operating in 153 different countries.

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Gestetner's inventions became an overnight success, and an international chain of branch offices that sold and serviced Gestetner products was established.

Gestetner Company expanded quickly during the early and mid-20th century.

Gestetner acquired other companies during the years: Nashua, Rex Rotary, Hanimex and Savin.

In 1995 the international Gestetner Company was acquired by the Ricoh company of Japan.

Gestetner was renamed NRG Group PLC, and markets and services Ricoh products under its three main brand names, primarily in Europe, South Africa and the Middle East, but through dealers throughout the world.

In Europe, Gestetner Group became NRG Group, which on 1 April 2007 became Ricoh Europe.

Gestetner Cyclograph was a stencil-method duplicator that used a thin sheet of paper coated with wax, which was written upon with a special stylus that left a broken line through the stencil, removing the paper's wax coating.

Gestetner developed his invention, with the stencil eventually being placed on a screen wrapped around a pair of revolving drums, onto which ink was placed.

Model 66 was perhaps the most famous Gestetner machine, designed by Raymond Loewy; examples are currently housed in the British Museum and Churchill's War Bunker in Whitehall.