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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 millions ...
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."
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.
Chester F. Carlson. 1906 – 1968. Invented Xerographic Process. Enshrined: : 1991. Chester F. Carlson was born on February 8, 1906 in Seattle Washington. His parents had little to no formal education, but were highly regarded by their families. They were often thought of as the most intelligent of their siblings.
Apr 10, 2012 · Chester F. Carlson, an American physicist and researcher, invented electroxerography—the reproduction process we know as photocopying—that transformed the American workplace in the early 1960s.
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.
