COPIES IN SECONDS:HOW A LONE INVENTOR AND AN UNKNOWN COMPANY CREATED THE BIGGEST COMMUNICATIONS BREAKTHROUGH SINCE GUTENBERG-CHESTER CARLSON AND THE BIRTH OF THE XEROX MACHINE

Book ID/图书代码： 12580004B04893

English Summary/英文概要： The impact of the Xerox machine, reasons author David Owen, can be compared to that of Gutenberg’s printing press. Yet this remarkable invention, which radically changed the way information is disseminated and has been dubbed the most successful commercial product in history, very nearly never made it into production at all. Chester Carlson, the inventor of xerography, was a quiet and reserved physics graduate employed in the New York patent office of a small electronics outfit. His work often called for copies of documents, and there was no inexpensive and convenient way of obtaining them. Carlson decided to address the problem by devising his own copying machine. For years, Carlson pursued his private obsession. Working in a small Queens apartment owned by his mother-in-law, he began to make progress, and in 1938 produced the world’s first xerographic copy. Then the real challenge began. Over twenty big corporations-including IBM, RCA, and GE-turned down the chance to make and market copy machines. Seven years after patenting his design, Carlson was approached by Haloid Xerox’s head of research, John Dessauer, and two years later, Haloid introduced the first xerographic copier.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书讲述了复印机的产生过程。一个名叫Chester Carlson的人，在纽约一家公司的专利办公室工作。由于他的工作常常要复制各种文件，他就想到要造一种复印机。经过多年研究，他终于在1938年造出了第一台样机。可是，许多大公司并不看好他的新产品。直到专利登记7年之后，才有一家名叫施乐的公司找上门来。从此，施乐公司和复印机名满天下。

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About the Author/作者介绍： DAVID OWEN is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of a dozen books, among them The Walls Around Us, My Usual Game, The Chosen One, and The First National Bank of Dad. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, the writer Ann Hodgman, and their two children.

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