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(Source: ahonui24)
Samuel O’Reilly invented the electric tattooing machine in 1891. O’Reilly improved upon an earlier tattoo machine invented by Thomas Edison that did not succeed commercially. Tattoo machines work by using a hollow needle filled with permanent ink. An electric motor pushes the needle in and out of the skin at a rate of up to 3,000 punctures per minute. The tattoo needle inserts a small drop of ink about 1/8 of an inch below the surface of the skin each time.
The term “tattoo” was adopted from the Polynesian language: Thaiti dialect has a word “tatau” that means “a picture”.
