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
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (863 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743251180 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Copies in Seconds by David Owen" according to Roger L. Brunel. Years ago I worked for the company (Battelle Memorial Institute)that sponsored Carl Chesterson's research on the xerography process which ultimately led to the development of the Xerox copying machine. Interested in the what the author had to say about the inventor and the details of the development process, I checked the book out of our local l. Missouri shopper said Absolutely fascinating.. I found it hard to put this book down. Owen does a remarkable job of making us live with Carlson the many trials involved in turning an idea into a practical product. Xerox is a much written about corporation but this account is unique, extraordinary, and painstakingly researched. One can only marvel still at Chester Carlson's genius. I was amaz. Applying Hertz and Einstein S. ragno The idea behind the xerography applies what Hertz and Einstein discovered and studied: the photoelectric effect.The book is well written and has the right mix of technology,trivia and history to keep the reader interested and absorbed.
Copies in Seconds is a tale of corporate innovation and risk-taking at its very best.. Scientists who visited the drafty warehouses where the first machines were built sometimes doubted that Carlson's invention was even theoretically feasible. Xerography was so unusual and nonintuitive that it conceivably could have been overlooked entirely. He offered his big idea to two dozen major corporations -- among them IBM, RCA, and General Electric -- all of which turned him down. Building the first plain-paper office copier -- with parts scrounged from junkyards, cleaning brushes made of hand-sewn rabbit fur, and a built-in fire extinguisher -- required the persistence, courage, and imagination of an extraordinary group of physicists, engineers, and corporate executives whose story has never before been fully told. So persistent was this failure of capitalistic vision that by the time the Xerox 914 was manufactured, by an obscure photographic-supply company in Rochester, New York, Carlson's original patent had expired. A lone inventor and the story of how one of the most revolutionary inventions of the twentieth century almost didn't happen. Introduced in 1960, the first plain-paper office copier is unusual among major high-technology inventions in that its central process was conceived by
. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly As New Yorker staff writer Owen explains in this fast-paced account of one inventor's hopes and dreams, the technology of copying is a relatively modern phenomenon. After he graduated from college, he went to work for Bell Laboratories and continued his inventive ways. He recounts the history of copying documents from the scribal work of monks to the invention of the printing press and lithography, to the process that eventually resulted in today's Xerox machine. An inventive