The Curious case Zerox #patentworldai #photocopymachine #patent #zerox #patenthistory #Xerography

​‪@Patentworld-ai‬ Imagine a world where every copy of a document had to be typed by hand. Before 1938, that was the reality for office workers everywhere! In this video, we dive into the incredible and curious story of Chester Carlson, an arthritic patent clerk who was so sick of carbon paper that he invented the modern photocopier in an improvised lab above a bar in Queens, New York. Learn how Carlson and his assistant Otto Kornei used sulfur, a bright lamp, and plant spores to pull off the world's first "xerographic" copy, and why more than 20 major corporations like IBM and General Electric rejected his billion-dollar idea. Plus, discover the hilarious reason Xerox had to use a live chimpanzee to market their first major machine to the world! Timestamps (Video Chapters) 0:00 - The Nightmare of 1930s Office Work 0:40 - Meet Chester Carlson, The Frustrated Patent Clerk 1:20 - The Astoria Experiment (October 22, 1938) 2:10 - How the First Photocopy Actually Worked 3:00 - The $1 Billion Rejection 3:40 - The Xerox 914 & The Chimpanzee Commercial 4:30 - The Legacy of "Dry Writing" #Xerox, #HistoryOfInvention, #ChesterCarlson, #TechHistory, #Photocopier, #Xerography, #STEM, #sciencehistory #zerox914 #patent #inventions #breakthrough #billionaire