Word: dessauer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work for the Haloid Co., a photocopying firm that his grandfather had helped start in 1906. Shortly before he became president, the Government began drastically cutting back on its large wartime orders from Haloid, and Wilson started a search for new products. His chief of research. Dr. John Dessauer, showed him a 25-line abstract in a Kodak company journal describing a dry copying process that had been invented by Physicist Chester F. Carlson in the 1930s but never commercially developed. Wilson studied Carlson's equipment-which had been unsuccessfully offered to Kodak, A.B. Dick and IBM-then decided...