If you walk into Firstsite, an innovative contemporary art gallery in Colchester, Essex, in the U.K., the last thing you would expect to see is a working copy shop. That’s your first clue that ...

Copying is the engine of civilization: culture is behavior duplicated. The oldest copier invented by people is language, by which an idea of yours becomes an idea of mine. The second great copying ...

NORWALK, CT—October 17, 2013—Written in a bold hand on a glass slide was the date and location: 10-22-38 Astoria. The copy might have been fuzzy, but it was still a copy. In fact, it was the world’s ...

The building is still standing on 37th Street in Astoria, Queens — home today to a pizza place and car service business. It was in a small second-story apartment there 75 years ago that Chester ...

The workplace has never been the same. Seventy-five years ago today, Chester F. Carlson invented the process of dry photocopying known as electrophotography. The innovation led to the creation of the ...

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Written in a bold hand on a glass slide was the date and location: 10-22-38 Astoria. The copy might have been fuzzy, but it was still a copy. In fact, it was the world ...

“… for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree ...

This is a Xerox glass slide used in the first successful experiment in xerography. Chester Carlson (1906-1968) invented the process of electrophotography, or xerography, in 1938. Over the next five ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of illustrator, xerography artist, filmmaker, and educator Esta Nesbitt measure 10.05 linear feet and date from circa 1942-1981. Found ...

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