WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
FIRST COMMERCIAL COPIER
Profile America — Tuesday, August 25th. The Smithsonian Institution, founded this month in 1846, is the world's largest museum and research complex, with 137 million artifacts in its collection. One was donated to the museum in August 1985 to mark the 25th anniversary of its commercial debut — the original Xerox 914 copying machine. Weighing in at just under 650 pounds, the 914 could produce seven copies per minute. The principle of xerography — producing images on paper using electricity — was developed in 1938 by lawyer-scientist Chester Carlson, who saved future generations from having to deal with carbon paper and mimeograph stencils. Some 222 U.S. companies make photocopiers and other photographic equipment. The value of their shipments is nearly $2 billion a year. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Copier: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-mother-of-all-invention/308123/
Capacities: http://www.auburn.edu/~boultwr/copiers.pdf
Smithsonian donation: http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_2096
Companies/NAICS 333316: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ECN_2012_US_31I1&prodType=table
Value of shipments/NAICS 333315: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ASM_2011_31VS201&prodType=table
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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