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 A tattoo machine is a hand-held device generally used to create a tattoo, a permanent marking of the skin with ink.
Modern tattoo machines use alternating electromagnetic coils to move a
needle bar up and down, driving pigment into the skin. Tattoo artists
generally use the term "machine", or even "iron", to refer to their
equipment.  The basic machine was invented by Thomas Edison and patented in the United States in 1876
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Decorative and spiritual uses
Tattoos have served as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, amulets
and talismans, protection, and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and
convicts. The symbolism and impact of tattoos varies in different
places and cultures. Tattoos may show how a person feels about a
relative (commonly mother/father or daughter/son) or about an unrelated
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Tattooing in prehistoric times
Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice since Neolithic times. "Ötzi the Iceman", dated circa 3300 BC, bearing 57 tattoos: a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15 centimeters long above the kidneys and numerous small parallel lines along the lumbar, legs and the ankles, exhibiting possible therapeutic tattoos (treatment of arthritis). Tarim Basin (West China, Xinjiang) revealed several tattooed mummies of a Western (Western Asian/European) physical type. Still relatively unknown (the only current publications in Western languages are those of J P. Mallory and V H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies, London, 2000), some of them could date from the end of the 2nd millennium BC.
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