Although the patent reward and the wealth it may bring inventors is often considered the principal incentive for innovation, Chet’s story and the development of the xerography machine as a ...

This is because xerography is a type of photocopying method whose process doesn’t involve messy liquid chemicals. Xerographic machines are in ubiquitous use around the world today to quickly and ...

Xerography’s inventor ... he had to copy intricate documents by hand and became fixated on inventing a machine that could make copies in an office using dry chemicals. He started experimenting ...

This exhibit—timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the invention of xerography by Chester Carlson—reveals the remarkably creative role copiers, printers and fax machines played in the ...

Just two years later, when Popular Science first featured xerography, Haloid introduced a large and cumbersome model of Carlson’s xerographic machine. They called it the XeroX Copier.

a machine that, unlike its numerous competitors, made sharp, permanent copies on ordinary paper—a huge breakthrough. The process, which Haloid called xerography (based on Greek words meaning ...

The copy machines of today get a lot of action from office temps and owners of lost dogs, but did you know that the xerox machine has played a small—but crucial—role in modern art? Xerography ...

Evans' process is similar to this, albeit much more manual. Using a high-voltage Van Der Graaf generator, Evans zaps a piece of acrylic with 400,000 volts of electricity.

After careful consideration, Wilson took a major risk and changed his company's name to Haloid Xerox in 1958, even though the xerography machine was still in development. After the premiere ...

An ad for the Xerox 4000 photocopier, available in the early 1970s. Bill Gates wrote about his favorite business book in the Wall Street Journal this past weekend, and it's a bit of a surprise choice.