Management was passed to David Gestetner's son, Sigmund Gestetner, and from him to his sons, David and Jonathan. The Gestetner Company expanded quickly during the early and mid-20th century. Gestetner's inventions became an overnight success, and an international chain of branch offices that sold and serviced Gestetner products was established. The Gestetner works opened in 1906 at Tottenham Hale, north London, and employed several thousand people until the 1990s, operating in 153 different countries. That same year, he also established the Gestetner Cyclograph Company to produce duplicating machines, stencils, styli, ink rollers and related products. A later patent in 1881 was for the Cyclostyle, a stylus that was part of the Cyclograph copying device. David Gestetner was born in Hungary in 1854, and after working in Vienna and New York, he moved to London, England, filing his first copying patent there in 1879.
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