Sixty years have passed since the first time anyone performed a task that's now done millions of times an hour: making a xerographic duplicate. With that first copy, a shy bespectacled inventor named Chester F. Carlson inaugurated a technology that each day gives untold numbers of office workers instant gratification. Carlson's gratification as an inventor, on the other hand, required decades of patience.

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