Recently, on one of those “today in history” moments that are the total of television’s nod to educational content, I discovered that it was the 125th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s invention of the ...

It’s a crucial line in the 1990 movie Ghost, a favorite phrase of Rush Limbaugh’s dittoheads, and the reigning copy machine of the mid-20th century, but what does ditto really mean, and where did it ...

Plenty more words than we realise come from the printing press. We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how the words “uppercase” and “lowercase” originally related to the drawers certain letters ...

Unidentified man in shirt sleeves operating a "Ditto" brand copy machine. In the background are other office equipment in background. The photograph was taken for Ditto Company. This item is being ...