Alfred Charles South of Cockspur St. London was a British tattoo artist and inventor at the turn of the 20th century. South patented the twin coil, electromagnetic tattoo machine in London on Jun. 30th 1899. His construction was based on a door bell assembly in a plate steel box with brass slabs attached to each side. It was heavy and was often used with a spring attached to the top of the machine and to the ceiling to take most of the weight off the operators' hand. Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7. ... A coil is a series of loops. ... Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: a field, encompassing all of space, composed of the electric field and the magnetic field. ... Traditional 2 coil tattoo machine 4 views A tattoo gun, is a gun-shaped machine for creating a tattoo, i. ...