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Samuel F. O'Reilly

O’Reilly’s Tattoo Machine:
Fine Art for the Masses

By Ray Cavanaugh, Contributor
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

More than 45 million Americans have at least one tattoo. The vast lot of them got inked by way of an electric tattoo machine. And chances are they have no idea who invented the electric tattoo machine: Samuel O’Reilly. His rambunctious, enigmatic life began in May 1854 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Both his parents were Irish immigrants, and he was the oldest of five children. At … [Read more...] about O’Reilly’s Tattoo Machine:
Fine Art for the Masses

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