...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 |
| 7427580 | Spinel based high temperature shift catalysts A method is described for producing a high temperature shift catalyst, not requiring a reduction step prior to use, by precipitating a composition containing divalent and trivalent iron compounds and a modifier metal selected from trivalent chromium and/or manganese... | 09/23/2008 |
| 6555958 | Phosphor for down converting ultraviolet light of LEDs to blue-green light There is provided a blue-green illumination system, comprising a light emitting diode, and a luminescent material having emission CIE color coordinates located within an area of a of a pentagon on a CIE chromaticity diagram, whose corners have the followi... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6540908 | Process for sulfiding a hydrotreating catalyst comprising an organic compound comprising n and carbonyl The invention pertains to a process for preparing a sulfided hydrotreating catalyst in which a hydrotreating catalyst is subjected to a sulfidation step, wherein the hydrotreating catalyst comprises a carrier comprising at least 50 wt % of alumina, the ca... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6133194 | Cerium oxides, zirconium oxides, Ce/Zr mixed oxides and Ce/Zr solid solutions having improved thermal stability and oxygen storage capacity The production of cerium oxides, zirconium oxides, (Ce,Zr)O2 mixed oxides and (Ce,Zr)O2 solid solutions having improved particle size distribution, surface area, oxygen storage capacity and pore volume by the addition of an additive,... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5993664 | Method for producing a material for heavy metal absorption or for analytically detecting heavy metals A method for producing a material for heavy metal absorption or for analytically detecting heavy metals, especially uranium and radium, comprises the steps of: providing a material containing nitrogen which is organically bonded in a polymer; treating sai... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5858906 | Compacts based on pyrogenically produced oxides Compacts produced from a pyrogenically produced oxide, magnesium stearate, methyl cellulose and urea are mixed together in the presence of water, compacted, dried, comminuted to a powder, and the powder is pressed with an isostatic press to compacts and t... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5800800 | Crystalline inorganic oxide compositions prepared by neutral templating route This invention relates to new crystalline organic compositions having unique combinations of framework-confined uniform mesopores and textural mesopores and to a method for their preparation. The compositions typically possess a framework wall thickness o... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5785946 | Crystalline inorganic oxide compositions prepared by neutral templating route This invention relates to new crystalline organic compositions having unique combinations of framework-confined uniform mesopores and textural mesopores and to a method for their preparation. The compositions typically possess a framework wall thickness o... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5374608 | Compositions containing adducts and surfactants Compositions containing one or more surfactants in combination with sulfuric acid and one or more of certain chalcogen-containing compounds in which the chalcogen compound/H2 SO4 molar ratio is below 2. These compositions contain the... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5231067 | Shaped articles based on pyrogenically produced titanium dioxide, method of their production and their use Pressed parts based on pyrogenically produced titanium dioxide with the following physico-chemical characteristics: ______________________________________ Outer diameter 0.8-15 mm BET surface according | 07/27/1993 |
| 4482752 | Organic compound conversion Organic compound conversion in the presence of a new class of heterogeneous catalyst is provided. Said new class of heterogeneous catalyst comprises a substrate having a minimum surface area of about 10 m2 /g and having pores with a minimum por... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4454363 | Process for preparing inorganic metal oxygen composition capable of dehydrocoupling toluene A process for preparing a metal oxygen composition capable of dehydrocoupling toluene wherein metal oxides such as Sb2 O3, PbO, and Bi2 O3 are admixed with an organic media such as isobutanol and heated to form ... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4439621 | Oxydehydrogenation process Isobutyric acid or a lower alkyl ester thereof is oxidatively dehydrogenated in the vapor phase producing the corresponding olefinically unsaturated derivative by contact with a heterogeneous catalyst in the presence of molecular oxygen. The catalyst is c... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4344927 | Method of preparing crystalline silica polymorph A crystalline silicate suitable for use in preparing an aromatic alkylation or isomerization catalyst is prepared by hydrothermally crystallizing said crystalline silicate from a silicate solution containing an organic agent, in combination with a base so... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4337176 | Process for the preparation of crystalline silicates An improved process for the preparation of certain crystalline iron silicates particularly suitable for converting acyclic oxygen-containing hydrocarbons into aromatic hydrocarbons wherein use of high silicon content compounds together with certain amines... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4242235 | Supports for silver catalysts utilized in the production of ethylene oxide Silver catalysts for vapor phase synthesis of ethylene oxide by reacting oxygen or gaseous mixtures containing same with ethylene, characterized by the use as support of a porous material having a specific surface area of less than 10 sq. m/g, a total vol... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4186111 | Stabilized aluminosilicate hydrocracking catalyst A process is described for producing gasoline from a paraffinic hydrocarbon feed wherein the feed is catalytically cracked and then reformed. In the process a novel porous hydrocracking catalyst composite is employed. This catalyst comprises a silica-alum... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4142962 | Hydrogenation and hydrocracking with highly dispersed supported nickel catalysts This invention relates to a method for making supported nickel catalysts which are characterized as having the nickel in a highly dispersed state, the catalysts and use thereof in hydrogenation, reforming and hydrocarbon synthesis reactions, for example, ... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4137146 | Two-stage hydroconversion process (hydrocracking and reforming) using a stabilized aluminosilicate hydrocracking catalyst A process is described for producing gasoline from a paraffinic hydrocarbon feed wherein the feed is catalytically cracked and then reformed. In the process a novel porous hydrocracking catalyst composite is employed. This catalyst comprises a silica-alum... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4073750 | Method for preparing a highly dispersed supported nickel catalyst This invention relates to a method for making supported nickel catalysts which are characterized as having the nickel in a highly dispersed state, the catalysts and use thereof in hydrogenation, reforming and hydrocarbon synthesis reactions, for example, ... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4035260 | Process for hydrogenation catalysts of improved distribution of active components Reductive deposition of a platinum metal on a preformed porous carbon support provides increased intensity ratios of support/platinum metal as the average pore radius of the carbon support increases.... | 07/12/1977 |
| 3997475 | Supported nickel catalyst A process for the preparation of a supported nickel catalyst in which an intimate mixture of a suspension of carrier material in aqueous nickel salt solution, a substantially water-insoluble organic base and a stronger inorganic base are used to precipita... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3943072 | Separation of molecules Porous material particularly suitable for selective sorption and retention of macromolecules are manufactured by mixing a finely divided inorganic material with a fugitive additive, forming into discrete particles and heat treating to remove fugitive addi... | 03/09/1976 |