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Chester Carlson used Pál Selényi's ideas
Carlson did chemical experiments in his own home, to the frustration of his family and neighbours. He mad smelly compounds, melting sulfur over zinc plates in the kitchen smelling like rotten eggs, and once even starting a fire.
Carlson used Selényi’s ideas (more or less to use light to remove static charge, not create it) and his own. After many experiments, he had a breakthrough and created the first copy in 1938.
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The Xerox 914 is a story we can learn from
The Xerox 914 copy machine of 1959 is a great breakthrough in office technology and product design. Its hallmark was simplicity: You simply paced your paper on glass and pressed a button.
How Chester Carlson invented it is a story of risk and persistence. ...
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Chester Carlson focuses on a copying invention
- Carlson worked at Bell Labs in the 1930s in the patent department. He had multiple ideas for different inventions. However, he focused on copying because typing on two sheets of paper with a carbon paper in between was messy and frustrating.
- Carlson was fir...
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Further development of the copy machine
Another decade of development produced the Xerox 914 - named because it could copy paper up to 9″ x 14″. This model was simple to use and didn't damage originals.
As with most new tech, it had some problems. It tended to overheat and often came with a fire extinguisher. The machines requir...
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Chester Carlson get financial support
- Once patented, Carlson was turned down by 20 companies between 1939 and 1944, including IBM and the U.S. Navy.
- Carlson continued to work in patents at the P.R. Mallory Company and demonstrated his work to an engineer from Battelle, who was there to testify for a patent case. Batell...
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