Chester Carlson was born in Seattle in 1906. His parents—Olof Adolph Carlson and Ellen Josephine Hawkins—had grown up on neighboring farms in Grove City, Minnesota, a tiny Swedish farming community ...

Rochester, N.Y. - What started as an experiment in a small kitchen in Astoria, New York, transformed the world and became one of the cornerstone companies of Rochester. 75 years later, Xerox is not ...

The workplace has never been the same. Seventy-five years ago today, Chester F. Carlson invented the process of dry photocopying known as electrophotography. The innovation led to the creation of the ...

This is a Xerox glass slide used in the first successful experiment in xerography. Chester Carlson (1906-1968) invented the process of electrophotography, or xerography, in 1938. Over the next five ...