New Technologies in a Printing World – Disruptive Technologies
The date was October, 22, 1938; the location – Astoria, New York. This was the day Chester Carlson created his first successful test of a photocopying method he had been working on for three years. Carlson was a patent attorney with a background in physics. His motivation for copy reproduction was to find a more efficient method of copying the endless amount of documents required by someone in his position….