Tattoo machines have become the standard tools for modern tattoo artists. They may be cool tattoo guns in the eyes of people who don’t know tattoos, but in the eyes of tattooists, a tattoo machine is a tool that they live on. After hundreds of years of development, a modern electric tattoo machine is already the hand of a tattoo artist, the treasure of a tattoo artist, and the closest friend of a tattoo artist.
The history of tattoo machines
To trace the history of the tattoo machine, we can date back to the 19th century the patents filed by Samuel O'Reilly in 1891. when Volta, an Italian inventor, improved the battery. All early tattoo machines and models were battery-powered. The search for history needs us to back to 1819 when the Danish inventor Hans Christian Ørsted discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This basic electrical principle has been used on all patented tattoo machines and is used in practice. It seems that O'Reilly's famous patent in 1891 would boost. Indeed, O'Reilly's work is the first mature patented tattoo machine, but before that, electromagnetic power punch tools had been developed for a long time.
