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Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as the Haloid Photographic Company. [11] It manufactured photographic paper and equipment. In 1938, Chester Carlson, a physicist working independently, invented a process for printing images using an electrically charged photoconductor-coated metal plate [12] and dry powder "toner".
Joseph Chamberlain Wilson (December 13, 1909 [1] – November 22, 1971) was the founder of the Xerox Corporation, a graduate of the University of Rochester and Harvard Business School [2] and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Beta Phi chapter). He helped to develop xerography pioneered by Chester Carlson.
The Xerox 914 was the first successful commercial plain paper copier. Introduced in 1959 by the Haloid/Xerox company, it revolutionized the document-copying industry. The culmination of inventor Chester Carlson 's work on the xerographic process, the 914 was fast and economical.
Xerox Celebrates the Creation of Xerography - and 75 Years of Simplifying How Work Gets Done NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Written in a bold hand on a glass slide was the date and location: 10 ...
PARC entrance. SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. [2] [3] [4] It was founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, as a division of Xerox, tasked with creating computer technology-related products and hardware systems.
Former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns became the first Black woman to helm a Fortune 500 company in 2009. Last year marked the first time that women made up over 10% of CEOs of the country’s most ...
After selling MTech to EDS, Deason founded Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) in 1988. [3] ACS became one of the first companies to outsource office work to places outside of the United States. [2] The company went public in 1994. [2] Deason retired as CEO of the company in 1999, but remained Executive Chairman until its sale to Xerox in 2010. [2]
It's hard to believe, but there was a time that seat belts were optional. That all changed in 1985 when New York became the first state in the United States to require the use of a seat belt. The ...