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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.
First web search engine to use a crawler and indexer: JumpStation, created by Jonathon Fletcher, is released. It is the first WWW resource-discovery tool to combine the three essential features of a web search engine (crawling, indexing, and searching). [13] [14] [18] 1994 January New web directory
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 ...
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.
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
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.
Here's a look at some of the major events that took place in the world the same year that AOL started.