Background Note
The history of Xerox goes back to 1938, when Chester Carlson, a patent attorney and part-time inventor,made the first xerographic image in the US. Carlson struggled for over five years to sell the invention, asmany companies did not believe there was a market for it. Finally, in 1944, the Battelle MemorialInstitute in Columbus, Ohio, contracted with Carlson to refine his new process, which Carlson called'electro photography.' Three years later, The Haloid Company, maker of photographic paper,approached Battelle and obtained a license to develop and market a copying machine based onCarlson's