Did You Know...
...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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3968986 | Electromagnetic lifting device An electromagnetic lifting device for handling a ferromagnetic material, which device has a magnetic assembly consisting of a plurality of movable magnetic pole members having relatively small pole areas, and said assembly has a given total pole area, thu... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3960279 | Magnetic alignment for semiconductor device bonding A self-aligning method and apparatus for magnetically transferring semiconductor chips to corresponding fingers of a conductive lead frame for bonding thereto. A chip having a plurality of soft ferromagnetic integral leads on one face thereof is positione... | 06/01/1976 |
