Who marketed the first photocopier? General Knowledge for Kids and Students of Class 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 Examinations

Who marketed the first photocopier?

First PHOTOCOPIER.

The first PHOTOCOPIER was marketed by the Rectigraph Co. of Rochester, New York in 1907. The patentee of the Rectigraph machine was George C. Beidler, who conceived the idea four years earlier while working in an Oklahoma City land-claim office. The need for constant duplication of legal documents led him to search for a better means than retyping or laborious copying by hand, his initial experiments being made with an ordinary dry-plate camera. The prototype Rectigraph photocopier followed and was patented in 1906.

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