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And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: February 8th, 1906, 109 years ago today . . . the day Chester Carlson was born in Seattle, Washington.
Chester Carlson, inventor of a process called “electrophotography.”
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Trained as a scientist, Carlson was an office worker in New York City in the 1930s when he virtually single-handedly developed a new way to copy documents,
He called his process “electrophotography.”
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