Mark Twain, James. W. Paige and the Paige Typesetter
From the accounts of the original mechanical engineer, the man who ended up buying it, and the patent attorney -- excerpted from: Typographical Printing-Surfaces: The Technology and Mechanism of Their Production
Mark Twain was also an inventor in his own right. He was granted a patent for a self-pasting scrapbook that worked by having blank pages pre-coated with gum.
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