biography
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Carlson, Chester (Floyd)
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| lived:
| (1906–68)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Seattle, Washington, USA. He graduated in physics at the California Institute of Technology, and worked in electronics, later specializing also in patent work. By 1938 he had devised a basic system of electrostatic copying on plain paper, which after 12 years' work by assistants became the xerographic method, the basis of modern photocopiers. |
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