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I’m not sure that anyone really knows a specific person who invented them. There is a good article about them here http://www.cedu.niu.edu/blackwell/books.html, which you might find interesting, talking a little bit about why they were invented, and the people who invented them were interested in teaching children without a huge expense… so perhaps the poor invented them?
