1938: Inventor Chester Carlson produces the first electrophotographic image. It’s the precursor of the Xerox machine.
Carlson was an engineer who couldn’t get a job in his field during the Great Depression, so he took work in the patent department of battery-manufacturer P.R. Mallory. A bottleneck in the work was making copies of patent documents: [...]
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1951 – Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 – Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball’s National League
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1955 – Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
1956 [...]
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