Copies in Seconds : How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of Xerox (Paperback)

from clews-reviews

The most surprising thing in the history of xerography is apparently that it works -- getting all the charges and powders lined up depends on subtle, indeed Einsteinian, physics. Running mass-produced, anisotropic paper around all the corners at speed was nearly as hard in practice (come to think...

from clews-reviews

The most surprising thing in the history of xerography is apparently that it works -- getting all the charges and powders lined up depends on subtle, indeed Einsteinian, physics. Running mass-produced, anisotropic paper around all the corners at speed was nearly as hard in practice (come to think...

from nancynova

rabck from MyssCyn in tag game; the story of the invention of a copy machine. Amazing how the inventor dreamed it up, then all the years of engineers tinkering to get the concept to work, and then having issues mass producing it. And the company became....Xerox. Book now going to Dad and then Sue.

from DonSiano

I am old enough to remember trying to do library research before Xerox. Taking notes longhand, especially with my nearly illegible handwriting, was a chore that I really hated. When xeroxing came along, my life was made a little bit better--I could walk out of the library with something I could a...

from DonSiano

I am old enough to remember trying to do library research before Xerox. Taking notes longhand, especially with my nearly illegible handwriting, was a chore that I really hated. When xeroxing came along, my life was made a little bit better--I could walk out of the library with something I could a...