Bonsack machine

The Bonsack machine was imported to England in 1883. In the next few years the cigarette industry developed in several European countries.

…a rolling machine called the Bonsack machine, which was patented by American James Bonsack in the United States in 1880. The machine was soon put into use by the American industrialist James Buchanan Duke, who founded the American Tobacco Company (ATC) in 1890. Inexpensive mass-produced cigarettes, promoted by Duke’s aggressive…