Chester Carlson net worth and salary: Chester Carlson is a Entrepreneur who has a net worth of $40 Billion. Chester Carlson was born in in February 8, 1906. Patent lawyer who tired of redrawing schematics and re-typing documents by hand and invented the very first copy machine.
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💰Chester Carlson Net worth: $40 Billion (Updated at 15 March 2019)
About
Patent lawyer who tired of redrawing schematics and re-typing documents by hand and invented the very first copy machine.
Before Fame
His nearsightedness and arthritis made the job of making copies for reports that much more arduous, and he created a novel way to reproduce them by a process called electric photography.
Trivia
He approached IBM and the Army Signal Corps with his invention with both turning him down. It took eight years to find an investor: the Haloid company, later renamed Xerox.
Family Life
He grew up in Seattle, Washington, his father a man of little formal education but considered a quick learner.
Associated With
He and John Harvard, financier of the Massachusetts-based university, were both on the Great Americans postage-stamp series.
