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A brief history of xerox company
Chester Carlson (Chester
F.
Carlson), a patent lawyer and amateur inventor, was born in astoria, new york on 1938 10/0.
Queens
, new
York
City), successfully made the first xerographic image for the first time. He spent several years trying to sell the invention patent, but failed. At that time, company managers and entrepreneurs didn't believe in carbon paper.
What market will there be for photocopiers? Besides, the prototype product of the copier at that time was so heavy and ugly. At that time, about 20 companies, including IBM and General Electric, rejected the invention with what Carlson called "no interest". Finally, in 1944, the Bater Institute in Ohio (Battelle
monument
Institute) signed a contract with Carlson to help him improve what he called "electronic image reproduction technology"
"(electrophotography)
The invention of. Three years later, a Harold company in Rochester, new york, found Bater and bought a license to develop and sell the copier invented by Carlson. Harold Company later obtained all the patents of Carlson's invention. Both Carlson and Harold think that the term "electronic image reproduction technology" is too obscure. So they accepted the suggestion of a classical language professor at Ohio State University and changed it to "xerography".
"This word comes from the Greek roots" dry "and" write ". Harold Company created another word "Xerox" as the trademark of the new copier. 1948 introduced the words "xerography" (used to describe the copying process) and "Xerox" (logo product) at the same time. After tasting the success of Xerox, Harold Company changed its name to "Harold Xerox Company" on 1958. 196 1 year, when the world accepted the first fully automatic office copier using ordinary paper-Xerox 9 14 copier, the company was renamed Xerox again.
Company).