21. 1876-Thomas A . Edison, an American, receives a patent for his mimeograph . 22. The device coexisted alongside the mimeograph . 23. The mimeograph machine used to produce the magazine had been discarded by the American Labor Party. 24. Limited by the technology of the day, the first issues used mimeograph and gestner printing. 25. Printing methods varied from lithography to carbon paper to a proto-mimeograph technique known as hectography. 26. When published now, it is photocopied, but originally it was done on a mimeograph machine. 27. Issues 1-16 were produced via mimeograph , while issues 17-30 were printed commercially. 28. Baby Boomers will remember when sniffing freshly printed purple mimeograph copies was the highlight of the school day. 29. Dick received Trademark Registration no . 0356815 for the term " Mimeograph " in the US Patent Office. 30. As of 1932 the typewriter became increasingly popular in offices, and the mimeograph became all the rage.