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. Batelle was impressed and offered financial support.
- In 1946 they signed a deal with Haloid (later renamed Xerox). In 1948 they released the Xerox Model A Copier that took 39 steps to make a single copy.
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