Gather ‘round, boys and girls; it’s time for a history lesson! If you’re thinking that history was never your favorite subject, don’t worry. This lesson is on a piece of equipment that is vital to most business owners: the photocopier machine. Necessity is the mother of invention Most great inventions are inspired by a need to accomplish a goal. The photocopier is no different. The copier was originally invented by an arthritic patent attorney and part-time researcher/inventor named Chester Carlton. Back in 1938, Carlton decided he was tired of the pain and tedium involved with making handwritten copies of important documents at the New York Patent Office. He began experimenting in his own kitchen using plates made of zinc and covered with sulfur. He wrote the words “10-22-38 Astoria” on a microscope slide, placed it on top of the sulfur, and shined a bright light over the slide. Afterwards, the words remained on the plate in mirror image. Research and Development As with most inventions, society was not immediately onboard with Carlton’s copying …show more content…
However, ingenuity and inventiveness started long before the merger. The company began selling photocopying materials in the late 1800’s and developed their first camera by 1900. Konica Minolta’s first photocopier hit U.S. markets in 1971. Since then, advancement in photocopier technology has been a mainstay for the company. Modern devices like the Bizhub C364 Color Copier Printer Scanner demonstrate how great photocopiers can improve the operations of any business. Photocopiers have come a long way over the last couple of decades. From the early days of Chester Carlton’s kitchen experiments, to the rise of Xerox, followed by the subsequent explosion of new technology, it is clear that the modern photocopier has become a vital piece of office
Provision of exemplary customer, commercial and technical service as a corporate goal is inline with market requirements, and Daytun is able to provide this given their core activities. Having established solid dealers, and a well founded, extremely functional service department, one of its core activities to provide modern, up-to-date copiers, is now a very feasible probability for Daytun. The pioneering of the cost-per-copy idea, allows the customer to easily understand the underlying costs of high quality copies as a service station, rather than just a stationary machine.
This new technology is not without its shortcomings. First, the printing press used limited materials. Next, as Mumford notes, the advent of print led calligraphers and manuscript copyists out of work. Furthermore, as Graff finds, it created “typographical fixity”—material once printed cannot be changed. Finally, mass production was dependent and limited to large markets (Mumford, 95)....
The first printing press was created to make books (Mostly bibles in the day) cheaper and more accessible. At this time only nobles and scribes new how to read and write. In result of this press, written pieces became commonplace making the common people needing to know how to read and write. This literacy spread and spread as the printing press became more common and caused the majority of the world’s people to be as literate as it is today which helped to revolutionize the work
Despite the availability of advanced modern day technologies for transferring documents worldwide, the fax machine, a technology developed way back in 1843, continues to persist in homes and offices even today. Considering the fact that this technology is more than a century old, it should have already joined the telegraphs and pagers in antique shops by now. Surprisingly however, instead of going obsolete, fax machines have continued to evolve, adapt and conform to the requirements of modern telecommunications. The fax machine had already made its mark as an office workhorse back in the 1980s, and has continued to appear on business cards ever since! Although threatened by far more advanced and preferable technologies like scanners, printers and email, the fax machine continues to dodge extinction by evolving constantly and remaining popular.
The idea for photographing came around in 1814 when Joseph Niépce wanted an image of his son before he left for war. He succeeded in making the first camera in 1827, but the camera needed at least eight hours to produce one picture. Parisian Louis Daguerre invented the next kind of camera in 1839, who worked with Niépce for four years. His camera only needed fifteen to thirty minutes to produce a picture. Both Niécpe’s and Daguerre’s cameras made pictues on metal plates. In the same year Daguerre made his camera, an Englishman by the name of William Henry Fox Talbot made the first camera that photographed pictures on paper. The camera printed a reverse picture onto a negative and chemicals were needed to produce the photo up right. In 1861, color film came along and pictures were produced with color instead of being just black and white. James Clerk Maxwell is credited with coming up with color film, after he took the ...
To start everything off, printmaking could not have been invented if paper have never been invented. Paper was invented during the Han Dynasty in about 105 C.E; quickly spreading throughout Europe. As a sidenote, the word paper is derived from the word papyros- Ancient Greek for the Cyperus papyrus plant from which the material used in paper was produced. The oldest surviving as well as oldest known woodcut , from Europe (approx. c. 1380), is known as the Bois Protat- a depiction of Christ’s crucifixion. Unfortunately, because of poor preservation, only one-quarter of the block has survived.
However, the spread of this new technology to other areas took decades to adopt. The printing press’s invention started in Germany around 1450. Other cities in Germany did not begin to establish printing presses for at least five years after the first existed. The rest of Europe did not ado...
In 1714 the first patent on a typing machine was issued in London, England to Henry Mill. There is no evidence that the machine was ever made but it is know that it was meant to prepare legal documents so they would be neat, legible and in standardized format. Moving forward to 1808 another patent was issued to Pellegrino Torri in Italy. This machine was meant to help the blind to write. Turri’s device also had the first “carbon copy”, which has had a lasting impact in the modern office. The “typowriter” was created in 1829 by William Austin Bort. Instead of keys, this device used dials to print characters. This process was very slow but was a way to print legible, uniform text. The typowriter was also intended for use with the blind. None of these machines gained too much public interest, or c...
There are many tablet PCs, portable electronics and variety of technologies to help people to communicate and share opinions or thoughts now. How about the past? People drew, scratched, painted, engraved and finally typed their stories or thoughts. The typewriter was the first machine to write in history. Among many typewriters, IBM Selectric I typewriter was the most revolutionary one. Selectric typewriter was not only a step stone for the next typewriter generations, but it also was a big part of historical event in feminism and the speed and the convenience of the model helped the work-force in the history. There could not be computers, iPads, or many other electronic items without the history of typewriters, especially the breakthrough technology of IBM Selectric typewriter.
A Xerox® copier, generically known as a photocopier, essentially works on the principles of static electricity. Electrical charges can be either positive or negative, which is somewhat similar to the poles of magnets. The negative end of a mag...
The United States had been the world’s leading producer of paper until it was overtaken by China in 2009. The paper industry is dominated by North American, Northern European and East Asian countries. Paper is discovered by the Chinese 2000 years ago, it has been used ever since as a communication medium. Paper is always around with people and paper is actually documenting the world. It plays a vital role as a passport to knowledge, a storage medium, a persuasive tool and an entertaining art form. Paper is a sustainable resource and permanent document. It is the universal medium on which to chronicle every day history which carries the past. Papermaking today is a large, capital-intensive industry, characterized by high speed machines and complex systems of control for manufacture. Papermaking is produced through several processes. As elaborated by Adanur (1997), there are fiber supply, kraft pulping, mechanical pulping, bleaching, preparation paper making, paper is formed (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1).
It evolved from a few scratches to complex novels and theories, the massive production of information created a need to store and spread the information in a more efficient way. Since the invention of printing technology in the 15th century, the production of books gave a new turn. Publication of books and journals on magnetic media microfilms and microfiche followed suit in the 1930s. This led to space problems in libraries and to the use magnetic media publication of books as a solution. While libraries were adapting to this new form , and facing lack of acceptance from the readers, in the 60s computing technology was being developed and prepared to take the lead on the publishing industry under the term of
Digital cameras allow computer users to take pictures and store the photographed images digitally instead of on traditional film. With some digital cameras, a user downloads the stored pictures from the digital camera using special software included with the camera. With others, the camera stores the pictures on a floppy disk or on a PC Card. A user then copies the pictures to a computer by inserting the floppy disk into a disk drive or the PC Card into a PC Card slot (Chambers and Norton 134). Once stored on a computer, the pictures can be edited with photo-editing software, printed, faxed, sent via electronic mail, included in another document, or, posted to a Web site for everyone to see.
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The specific needs the inventor addressed, were to make widely available information and books to those who were disadvantaged. Before the press all books all charters doctrine, usually of Catholic or religious news were all hand written by monks in monasteries . The Holy Roman Empire was the elite. Scribes hand wrote all books and flyers and the social caste system separated them as the elite, and they were important, until however after the Guttenberg bible was presented to the church and the amazing uniformity of each bible, on each page (illuminators did hand decorate select bibles).