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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. Carlson invented electrophotography (now xerography, meaning "dry writing"), producing a dry copy in contrast to the wet copies then produced by the Photostat process; it is now used by ...
Chester F. Carlson (born Feb. 8, 1906, Seattle, Wash., U.S.—died Sept. 19, 1968, New York, N.Y.) was an American physicist who was the inventor of xerography, an electrostatic dry-copying process that found applications ranging from office copying to reproducing out-of-print books.
Biography. On 8 February 1906, Chester F Carlson, the inventor of "electron photography," was born in Seattle, Washington. For marketing purposes, the Haloid Company, which had obtained exclusive commercial rights to Carlson's idea, changed the technically apt but otherwise unattractive name of electron photography to the more exotic "xerography."
Oct 22, 2013 · Chester Carlson revolutionized the way businesses operate with a simple invention: the xerox. He produced the world's first copy in 1938 in a small Astoria apartment in...
Chester Carlson, a physicist-inventor and patent attorney with a passion for imaging arts created electrophotography, which came be known as xerography and is today the foundation of the worldwide copying industry.
Physicist and National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee Chester Carlson, the father of xerographic printing, was born in Seattle, Washington.
Chester Carlson. (1906—1968) Quick Reference. (1906–1968) US physicist and inventor of xerography. Born in Seattle, the son of a barber, Carlson was educated at the California Institute of Technology.
