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Introduced in 1959, the Xerox 914 could make 100,000 copies per month. The Smithsonian received this machine in 1985. National Museum of American History The story of the invention of the ...
Xerography revolutionised the way we copy, print, and distribute textual material. It allowed for the quick and cheap reproduction of printed material, and enabled the emergence of a vibrant arts ...
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 ...
Seventy-five years ago this week, Xerography was born. Most of us have taken this technology for granted all our lives, but in the late 1930s, it was a truly radical invention that had no relation ...
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.
The machines were displaced, beginning in the late 1800s, ... The process, which Haloid called xerography (based on Greek words meaning “dry” and “writing”), ...
Nevertheless, he persevered and vastly improved long distance xerography machines. Emboldened by his success, he started to look for other applications for lasers.
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.
Mimeograph machines had been around since the late 19th century but weren't efficient enough to make mass-copying possible for ... even though the xerography machine was still in development.
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.