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Albert Blake Dick (April 16, 1856 – August 15, 1934) was a businessman who founded the A. B. Dick Company, a major American copier manufacturer and office supply company of the 20th Century. He coined the word "mimeograph".
Dick attended school in Galesburg, Illinois, then worked successively for the Brown manufacturing company, Deere & Mansur, and the Moline Lumber Company. He founded the A. B. Dick Company in 1883. It was originally a lumber company before branching into office supplies.
Dick lived in Lake Forest, Illinois. He died at his home there on August 15, 1934.
References
- ^ "Men of Affairs". Chicago Evening Post. 1906. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
- Owen, David (2004). Copies in seconds: how a lone inventor and an unknown company created the biggest communication breakthrough since Gutenberg: Chester Carlson and the birth of the Xerox machine. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 44.
- "Albert B. Dick". Chattanooga Daily Times. Chicago. AP. August 17, 1934. p. 3. Retrieved January 27, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
Further reading
- Buck, Glen. Fifty Years 1884-1934, A. B. Dick Company. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1934. (with drawings by Rockwell Kent and photographs by Torkel Korling.)
External links
- Chicago Historical Society entry on A. B. Dick Company
- "Albert Dick". Find a Grave. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
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