...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| 6992039 | Method for making monodispersed noble metal nanoparticles supported on oxide substrates A method for uniformly dispersing noble metal particles on a porous carrier by first mixing an alkoxide product of aluminum or silicon and a noble metal precursor together; then mixing a surfactant into the mixture; then mixing ammonia solution into the mixture to f... | 01/31/2006 |
| 4921278 | Identification system using computer generated moire A computer generated moire identification system mainly uses two kinds of computer generated grids, one called object grids, and the other, reference grids. An object grid is used as an information carrier. The necessary specific information for identific... | 05/01/1990 |