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 ...

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 ...

It was in a small second-story apartment there 75 years ago that Chester ... company that Carlson essentially built with his discovery of electrophotography or, as some call it, "xerography ...

At 8 p.m., Sunday, the Smithsonian Channel will feature the story behind the invention of Xerography with ... preview is available at xrx.sm/Carlson. In 1938, Chester Carlson, working in an ...

Xerography’s inventor, Chester Carlson, deserves to be much better known, as do many other inventors whose creations have changed the way we live. An introverted, solitary Caltech physics grad ...

RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science will celebrate the invention of xerography with a special seminar event and screening of a WXXI documentary, The Invention No One Wanted, at 4 p.m.

Chester Carlson revolutionized the way businesses ... But unlike those other inventions, his invention of xerography actually took off, and the technique became an instant success almost overnight.

In 1947, a small company called Haloid bought the rights to his process, which was renamed "xerography ... for the copies themselves. As for Chester Carlson, he died at the age of 62 ...

Remarkably, xerography was conceived by one person— Chester Carlson, a shy, soft-spoken patent attorney, who grew up in almost unspeakable poverty and worked his way through junior college and ...

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 ...