Chester Carlson, the inventor of electrophotography, or xerography, had been shopping his design for a decade before he finally entered a manufacturing agreement in 1947 with Haloid, a small Rochester ...

After some 20 rejections, Chester began a working relationship with Battelle Memorial Institute in 1944 and the Haloid Company — soon to be known as Xerox — in 1947. In 1959, Carlson's 19-year ...

Having grown up in his father’s photography products firm, Haloid Company, Wilson knew the business well enough to spot the need for Haloid to find a new technology in which to invest. He found such a ...

Then, Joseph Wilson and his small Haloid Company came forward as a partner. In 1959, 21 years after Carlson's invention, the first copier using xerography was placed in offices, making copies on plain ...

For example, a small firm Haloid, over a 14-year period, gambled much of its resources and future to bring to market one of the most successful products of all time, the Xerox 914. That success ...