DAVID GESTETNER


Hungarian-born David Gestetner, who died in 1939, aged 84, invented the cyclostyle in 1881, a duplicating machine which became known as "'the Gestetner", which used a pen, stencils and a rotating wheel to make paper copies.
The devoutly Jewish Gestetner family left Hungary in the 1870s and lived in New York and Vienna before coming to London in 1879.