Xerography is also termed as electrophotography. It is a process where dry photocopying is done using the attractive forces of electric charges in order to transfer the image. An American patent lawyer named Chester Carlson born in Seattle, Washington, had a deep desire to invent something great. He invented xerography in the late 1930s. As he was frustrated with the slow mimeograph machine and the photography cost, he went about inventing a new way of copying. Chester Carlson strived hard in his spare time to discover the way to make copies that would be easier and cost-effective. It was produced in a makeshift laboratory in Queens, NY, and developed as well as commercialized by the Xerox Corporation. It took almost eight years to find someone who believed in his invention and it was the Haloid Company that developed xerographic machine. Carlson and Haloid agreed the word ‘electrophotography’ was too cumbersome and the term xerography was suggested by a professor of classical languages at Ohio State University.
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