Tattoo Machine Development History

The origin of the tattoo machine. Early tattoos were called tattoos because they were manually inserted into the skin with a single color. After the color of the pattern was restored, it was mostly cyan, so it was named tattoo. It was an electric tattoo machine device invented by Sam O'Reilly in 1892. Since then, modern tattoos have developed rapidly. There is only a slight pain, and it is fast, and a simple tattoo can be done in a few minutes.
The equipment of early tattoo machines was rough and mostly made by hand. The cost of manual manufacturing was high and the patterns were single. At that time, the electric tattoo machine beat 1,000 times per minute and only penetrated the epidermis of the skin, with a depth of only 0.8-1 mm. Nowadays, the manufacturing of tattoo machines has reached the level of perfection. Electric tattoo machines beat 30,000 times per minute. Large-scale production and processing have made tattoo machines cheap, and the number of tattoo artists around the world has also continued to increase.