Tech special: Interesting facts about Xerox machines

American multinational document management firm Xerox Corporation Ltd unveiled the Xerox 914 on September 16th 1959 On this occasion we look at some facts about the most successful single product that revolutionized the documentcopying industry for years to comeAmerican multinational document management firm Xerox Corporation Ltd unveiled the Xerox 914 on September 16th 1959 On this occasion we look at some facts about the most successful single product that revolutionized the documentcopying industry for years to comeXerox 914gtgtThe Xerox 914 could make 100000 copies per month one copy every 264 seconds or 136 copieshourgtgt The Xerox 914 was named because it could copy originals up to 9 inches by 14 inches 229 mm times 356 mmgtgtOne major drawback of the Xerox 914 was that it had a tendency to catch fire when overheated American political activist Ralph Nader claimed that a model in his office had caught fire three times in a four month periodgtgt Because of the abovementioned issue the Xerox company provided a small fire extinguisher called the scorch eliminator along with the copiergtgt A floormounted device the external design was created by James G Balmer of ArmstrongBalmer amp Associates in collaboration with engineers Don Shepardson John Rutkus and Hal Bogdenoff of Xerox who had developed an engineering prototypegtgt Haloid had been renamed Haloid Xerox in 1958 and after the instant success of the 914 when the name Xerox soon became synonymous with copy would become the Xerox Corporationgtgt The copier was demonstrated to the public on September 16 1959 at the SherryNetherland Hotel in New York It was shown on live televisiongtgt Researchers at Xerox and its Palo Alto Research Center invented several important elements of personal computing These include the desktop metaphor GUI the computer mouse and desktop computing These features were earlier frowned upon by the then board of directors who ordered the Xerox engineers to share them with Apple technicians The features were taken on by Apple and later Microsoft Partly thanks to these features these two firms would then go on to duopolize the personal computing world