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Name: Chester F. Carlson
Birth Date: February 8, 1906
Death Date: 1968
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: inventor

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Biography of Chester F. Carlson
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The American inventor Chester F. Carlson (1906-1968) invented the process of xerography which became the basis for the operation of the office copying machines first introduced by the Xerox Corporation in 1959. Chester Floyd Carlson was born on...
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Biography of Chester Floyd Carlson
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Chester F. Carlson's life was one of hard work and diligence that paid off. At age 14 Carlson supported his ailing parents by working odd jobs. He attended college at night, graduating in 1930 from California Institute of Technology with a B.S. in...


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Chester Floyd Carlson Summary
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1906-1968 American physicist whose work led to the development of paper-copying machines. By 1938 Carlson had devised a basic system of electrostatic copying onto plain paper, which after 12 years work gave the xerographic method that is widely used....
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Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 - September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. He invented the process of instant copying which he called electrophotography, and which was subsequently...


 

Chester Carlson

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