Chester Carlson's Death
Born (Birthday) February 8, 1906
Death Date September 19, 1968
Age of Death 62 years
Cause of Death Heart Attack
Place of Death New York, New York, United States
Profession Entrepreneur
The entrepreneur Chester Carlson died at the age of 62. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Patent lawyer who tired of redrawing schematics and re-typing documents by hand and invented the very first copy machine.
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.
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.
How did Chester Carlson die?
On September 19, Carlson died of a heart attack.