Copy machines/Duplicate machines or more commonly known as the Xerox machines can be found in almost each and every office, no matter it is a big enterprise, a small business or even an individual! Wherein the majority of us happen to take all these gadgets and facilities for granted and hence fall for underestimating this wonderful creation. Be that as it may, let’s go back in time; let’s say about seventy to seventy-five years back, wherein you can believe that this great innovation, a Xerox machine was once used in a small condo in the Queens.So anyway before driving or parachuting right into the topic, did you know who is the creator of this little handy guy or might be a bit bulky.

Anyway coming back, the inventor was Chester Carlson who was in general a patent attorney.

Creator Chester Carlson made use of the friction based electricity and made it with a handkerchief, light, and dry powder and hence on Oct. 22, 1938, he made the main duplicate. He could also undertake copier repairs.

But don’t be happy! Because it wasn’t until the year 1959 that this amazing wonder came to the market and the vision of people, which counts up to taking well more than twenty years after its success. But as you know, even when today a new invention pops in, people get that amazing curiosity vibe. So was the case then, wherein with the release of Xerox machines in the markets, there were buzz and a sensation to use it in the workplaces and make the environment to work easier and simpler.Here came the time to display with the first principal business display, the Xerox 914, was easy massive and let’s say cumbersome awkward when compared to the Xerox/duplication machines today. Guess what! The main display of that time weighed almost 650 pounds. Nope, I am not, that’s the legit recorded weight. This was very popular among the masses with a lot of people inclined on getting one for their workplace and also individuals for the sake of testing out and curiosity.

Now humans are humans and where there are human, there exist their human instincts of using even using small things such as a pin for weird stuff and ideas. So was the case with the Xerox technology abroad that even inspired more fugitive and notorious uses for the Xerox copier machine. Now, this is something which is going to amaze you, just like the way I was. During the times if the cold war, the opposite rivalry teams would fit in inbuilt hidden cameras in the Xerox copier so as to keep a watch in the plans and motives of the other country and hence be a safer side with better counter attacks ready. Next time you see a Xerox machine for sale, you know how it came.