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'To my mind, it was practically the back door of the laboratories,' he told Dumond seventeen years later. 'It was one of the least desirable jobs, both as to job and location of work. We were down in the basement of the old annex building, four or five men all by ourselves. The place looked more like a little factory or workshop.'
Until after 1950, in fact, the only truly decent way of making a copy of a letter was by sitting down in front of a typewriter and rolling in a trusty piece of carbon paper.
The article [Dessauer] read in the Kodak bulletin was less than three hundred words long, but it described a process that sounded both technologically promising and emotionally appealing.
Haloid knew that several very large companies—among them Kodak, 3M, and IBM—were almost certainly working on office copiers of their own, using techniques unrelated to electrophotography. Why had all those companies ignored Carlson's idea? Did they know something that Haloid didn't?
If the University is unwilling or unable to accept the bequest for that purpose, his trustee is to find another University or non-profit foundation which would use the money for that purpose.
'My husband would be proud,' said Mrs. Carlson, 'that RIT chose to name the center for him. He made a great deal of money and gave most of it to education.'
During Philip Kapleau's book tour in 1965 Dorris Carlson invited him to visit her small meditation group and in June 1966, with the support of the Carlsons, he founded the Rochester Zen Center.
The financial situation was perennially acute, and if it had not been for one man, Chester Carlson, the inventor of Xerox, it would have been fatal; over the years Carlson provided ten million of the twenty-four million dollars the Center grossed between 1959 and 1978.
On July 4, Dai Bosatsu will celebrate the 25th anniversary of establishing a center on 1,400 acres that were paid for by Dorris Carlson, the widow of Chester Carlson, who invented the process that brought the world Xerox. The Carlsons had an interest in Eastern philosophy and religions. They also wanted to help transmit the Buddhist message, particularly the one taught by Eido Shimano Roshi, a Zen master. Dai Bosatsu's city base is a converted East 67th Street carriage house that was bought as a center for Eido Roshi by Mr. Carlson, who died four days after its dedication on Sept. 15, 1968.
Chester Carlson in front of Zen Center, 1968- contributed heavily to the beliefs of Zen Buddhism. (1 photo)
Ralph obtained galleys of the book and was instrumental in introducing the book as well as Roshi Kapleau to Dorris and Chester Carlson, whose Rochester meditation group later formed the nucleus of the Rochester Zen Center.
During Philip Kapleau's book tour in 1965 Dorris Carlson, wife of Chester Carlson, the inventor of xerography, invited him to visit her small meditation group in Rochester, New York. In June 1966, with the support of the Carlsons, he founded the Rochester Zen Center.
Ralph obtained galleys of the book and was instrumental in introducing the book as well as Roshi Kapleau to Dorris and Chester Carlson, whose Rochester meditation group later formed the nucleus of the Rochester Zen Center.
Two of the earliest readers of Three Pillars were Ralph Chapin of Chapin Manufacturing in Batavia, New York, and Dorris Carlson of Rochester, New York, the wife of Chester Carlson, the inventor of xerography, the technology that became the foundation for the Xerox Corporation. During Philip Kapleau's book tour in 1965, Dorris Carlson invited him to visit her small meditation group and in June 1966, with the support of the Carlsons, he founded the Rochester Zen center.
During Philip Kapleau's book tour in 1965 Dorris Carlson, wife of Chester Carlson, the inventor of xerography, invited him to visit her small meditation group in Rochester, New York. In June 1966, with the support of the Carlsons, he founded the Rochester Zen Center.
Two of the earliest readers of Three Pillars were Ralph Chapin of Chapin Manufacturing in Batavia, New York, and Dorris Carlson of Rochester, New York, the wife of Chester Carlson, the inventor of xerography, the technology that became the foundation for the Xerox Corporation. During Philip Kapleau's book tour in 1965, Dorris Carlson invited him to visit her small meditation group and in June 1966, with the support of the Carlsons, he founded the Rochester Zen center.
