Saturday, November 21, 2009

Story of Xerox.


The story flashes back to 1938 and a second-floor kitchen above in a bar in Astoria, Queens, which was being used as a makeshift laboratory by an obscure 32 year old inventor, named Chester F.Carlson. The son of a barber of Swedish extraction, and a graduate in physics of the California Institute of technology, Carlson was employed in Newyork in the patent department of P.R.Mallory and Co. In quest of fame, fortune and independence, Carlson was devoting his spare time, trying to invent an office copying machine, and to help him in this endeavour, he had hired Otto Korei, a German refuge physicist. The fruit of their experiment and producing considerable smoke and starch, they were able to transfer from one piece of paper to another the unheroic message "10-22-38 Astoria". Thus, photocopying was born.

The idea of photocopying was then taken over by one Mr.Joseph C.Wilson of the Haloid Company which was manufacturing photographic papers. Overshadowed by the giant in the field, namely, Eastman Kodak, and dispirited by the Great Depression, Haloid Company was desperately looking for a new product which would bail the firm out of trouble. The idea of photocopying inherited by Carlson was a god sent opportunity to Haloid Company. Not that the company could reap fortunes out of the idea immediately. For several years, sleepless nights were spent and millions of dollars were poured in to further improvise the idea of Carlson. Only in 1950's, the real breakthrough was achieved and then onwards, it was smiles all the way to the bank for everyone associated with the Haloid Company, which was subsequently maned as Xerox Corporation. It was indeed joy of creation for both Carlson the inventor as well as for Joseph Wilson, the developer.

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