Carbon Copy And Blind Carbon Copy

Carbon paper was invented in 1806 by Ralph Wedgewood of London, who soaked thin sheets in ink made from the pigment carbon black, and then dried them in blotting paper. His inspiration was not to make the lives of typists easier; the invention of the typewriter was still many decades away, rather he was trying to develop a machine that allowed the blind to write (and, curiously, it was Alexander Graham Bell's experiments in phonetics to aid the deaf that led to the invention of the telephone). Wedgewood was long dead before the mass production of typewriters saw his invention become an essential part of the stationery cupboard in almost every office.

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