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Author: Owen, David

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 68, Number 3, 2005, pp. 24-31

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 68:3, 2005

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:68.3.Copies

Abstract

How a lone inventor (Chester Carlson, BS '30) and an unknown company (the Haloid Company, now the Xerox Corporation) created the biggest communication breakthrough since Gutenberg.

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