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 |
| 4426164 | Line spacer for metal stamping devices An adjustable gearless line spacer for use with metal stamping typewriter apparatuses where it is desirous to uniformly space each line of type through a simple lever actuation, and to be able to conveniently adjust and preset the spacing between lines of... | 01/17/1984 |
