U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for August 25: First Commercial Copier

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

FIRST COMMERCIAL COPIER

Profile America — Thursday, August 25th. The Smithsonian Institution, founded this month in 1846, is the world's largest museum and research complex, with 138 million artifacts in its collection. One was donated to the museum in August 1985 to mark the 25th anniversary of its commercial debut — the original Xerox 914 copying machine. The principle of xerography — producing images on paper using electricity — was developed in 1938 by lawyer-scientist Chester Carlson, who saved future generations from having to deal with carbon paper and mimeograph stencils. Some 216 U.S. companies make photocopiers and other photographic equipment. The value of their shipments is over $1.7 billion a year. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.

Sources:
Smithsonian Institute artifacts/accessed 6/2/2016:  http://www.si.edu/collections 
Copier/accessed 6/2/2016:  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-mother-of-all-invention/308123/ 
Capacities/accessed 6/2/2016:   http://xeroxnostalgia.com/copiers/xerox-914/ 
Smithsonian donation/accessed 6/2/2016:   http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_2096 
Companies/NAICS 333316: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~333316 
Value of shipments/NAICS 333316: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~333316

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu). 

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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau

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