Chester F. Carlson
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(1906-68). U.S. inventor Chester F. Carlson was born on Feb. 8, 1906, in Seattle, Wash. After noticing the growing demand for multiple copies of documents, he began experimenting with different ways to make copies. He discovered a dry process involving no chemicals, and in 1940 he received his first patent for the invention that came to be known as xerography. In 1959 the Haloid-Xerox Company, later the Xerox Corporation, presented the first commercial xerographic copying machine. Carlson’s royalty rights and stock in Xerox Corporation made him a multimillionaire. He died in New York City on Sept. 19, 1968.