Chester Carson made the first copy of a document using xerography on Oct. 22%2C 1938 Between 1939 and 1944%2C Carlson pitched the technology to more than 20 companies and was rejected 20 times ...

In a true Horatio Alger story, Chester Carlson lifted himself from the poverty of living in a converted San Bernardino chicken coop to invent what his biographer calls the greatest communications ...

Chester Carlson revolutionized the way businesses operate with a simple invention: the xerox. He produced the world's first copy in 1938 in a small Astoria apartment in Queens, NY. That was ...

Chester Carlson, a physicist-inventor and patent attorney with a passion for imaging arts created electrophotography, which came be known as xerography and is today the foundation of the worldwide ...

Chester Carlson marked the date and location of his first copy on Oct. 22%2C1938. Ten years later%2C Haloid announced the first commercial photocopier. Invention propelled Xerox Corp. to ...

Ms. Carlson, whose father Chester Carlson invented the technology that launched Xerox Corp., was 91 and served the university as an honorary trustee. RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging ...

Chester Carlson, the inventor of electrophotography, or xerography, had been shopping his design for a decade before he finally entered a manufacturing agreement in 1947 with Haloid, a small ...

The hero of Copies in Seconds is Chester Carlson, a man of unusual modesty and singular drive. Born in Seattle in 1906, Carlson began life without prospects. His father, although trained as a ...

Imaging Science is an Interdisciplinary field combining computer science, engineering, and physics to explore image creation, perception, and analysis. Our strong industry partnerships, including the ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: February 8th, 1906, 109 years ago today . . . the day Chester Carlson was born in Seattle, Washington. Trained as a scientist, Carlson was an ...