A slow journey to quick copies. This deck talks about how Chester Carlson spent everything he had to chase his dream of quick copies, a series of rejections from the likes of IBM and an investor who saved his dying photography business.

1. The first Xerox Machine
The Slow Journey to Quick Copies

2. 1. Parents Died Young
2. Interested in electronics and physics
3. Clerk at patent office
Chester Carlson

3. 1. Learnt about electron photography
2. Built a prototype
3. Persisted even after continuous rejections from the likes of IBM and
GE
Wanted a simpler way to copy

4. 1. Financially ruined
2. Even led to his divorce
3. But he didn’t stop
Spent every penny he had

5. 1. Haloid had resources and will to be the next big thing
2. Met Carlson and funded his idea
3. First prototype had 39 steps, moving parts and took about 3 minutes
per copy
Haloid Xerography

6. 1. Haloid was inspired by Kodak
2. He changed the name from Xerography to Haloid Xerox and finally to
Xerox
3. It took 14 years to build a working Xerox Copier with over $ 75 million
investment ( huge sum in the 50s )
4. In 1965, Xerox had over 7000 employees and over $ 1 billion in sales
($ 134 million profits)
Xerox

7. Thank you :) | Shivek Khurana