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Eighty years ago today, in a home laboratory in Astoria, Queens, Chester Carlson invented a process that would come to be known as xerography. The process would provide the groundwork for the invention of copy machines. Copy machines still exist today, but they no longer rely on xerography and are generally considered an aging technology with limited functionality. This wasn’t the case in the mid- to late-twentieth century. For at least fifty years, work, education, and even politics were...

Interesting and a very important post. You have to wonder if he knew how further development of the process would lead to the industry we all know now. Anyone familiar with Robert P. Gundlach? He was another Rochester NY inventor who is actually noted with Carlson on the copier. As Carlson invented the Xerographic process, Gundlach developed the automation of the machine leading to multiple copies. Interested if anyone knows more.

So, he's the guy we can blame for mis feeds???

Written in a bold hand on a glass slide was the date and location: 10-22-38 Astoria. The copy might have been fuzzy, but it was still a copy. In fact, it was the world’s first xerographic copy. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first xerographic image, created by Chester Carlson in a rented second story room in Queens, N.Y. This humble invention would eventually lead to the formation of the Xerox Corporation and the birth of an industry. Even today, this xerographic process is...