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Read the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

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In the 1930’s, Chester F. Carlson was working in the patents department of a large electronics firm in New York

City. One of the major problems in his work was the length of time and expense involved in getting patents copied;

patents were lengthy legal documents, and the only ways to get them copied were to take them to a typist or to a

photographer. Either way of copying patents took a lot of time and cost a lot of money.

He came up with the idea for a machime that would copy documents quickly and efficiently. He researched

the idea in the library and then worked over a three-year period on developing a machine that used a light, a charged

plate, and powder to duplicate images on paper. The result of this work was a machine that produced the first

xerographic copy on October 22, 1938. He named the process “Xerox,” which means “dry writing.”

Carlson felt that he had a good idea, one that would be extremely helpful in the business world. He tried to sell

his idea to a number of large corporations, but they were not terribly interested in his machine. He was able to get

some help in developing the machine from an institute, and a few years later he sold the process to a small company.

This small company grew into the giant

Xerox Corporation, and both Carlson and Xerox became rather wealthy in

the process.