Chester Carlson
Chester Carlson, an American physicist and lawyer, will be remembered as the man who invented the photocopier. Thanks tothis great man, xerography is now used in companies all over the world. Chester Carlson was born on February 8, 1906, in Seattle, Washington. About one year after he was born, his father became very sick with tuberculosis. He also developed arthritis in his spine. Carlson's father spent most of his life lying in bed, coughing and feeling upset with his poor and sickly life. Not long after he was born, Carlson's family moved from Seattle and stayed a short time at a few places in California, Arizona, Mexico, and finally stayed in San Bernadino, California. It was there that Carlson went to grammar school and high school. Then he went to Riverside Junior College for three years, working and studying at the same time. Then he transferred schools to Advanced Standing at California Institute of Technology and got his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1930. While going to school and working, Carlson became interested in the work of other inventors, especially Edison. As he read about the other successful inventors, he realized that making an invention would be a
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