6. Xerography was created in Astoria
American physicist Chester Carlson was the first to patent a dry photocopying technique that gave birth to what we know today as the Xerox. Traditional methods stretch back centuries to when printing presses were developed, but xerography allowed for the production of photocopy machines, laser printers, and digital presses, The inventor worked on this project for a number of years at his home on 37th Street and 32nd Avenue, even struggling to sell his product a few years after it was patented.
Apart from copying and printing, xerography has been used significantly in the art and animation industries. Photographers looking to publish large albums of their work utilized the xerox to simplify the mass-production of their books. Animators in the film industry incorporated xerography into practice for the first time in 1961 after depending on hand-inking for years before then.
