Copies in Seconds
A lone inventor and the story of how one of the most revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century almost didn't happen.Introduced in 1960, the first plain-paper office copier is unusual among major high-technology inventions in that its central process was conceived by… Celý popis ↓
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A lone inventor and the story of how one of the most revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century almost didn't happen.Introduced in 1960, the first plain-paper office copier is unusual among major high-technology inventions in that its central process was conceived by a single person. He offered his big idea to two dozen major corporations -- among them IBM, RCA, and General Electric -- all of which turned him down. Chester Carlson grew up in unspeakable poverty, worked his way through junior college and the California Institute of Technology, and made his discovery in solitude in the depths of the Great Depression.
So persistent was this failure of capitalistic vision that by the time the Xerox 914 was manufactured, by an obscure photographic-supply company in Rochester, New York, Carlson's original patent had expired.Xerography was so unusual and nonintuitive
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