Chester Carlson Professions : Physicist Born : February 8, 1906 Died : September 19, 1968 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Chester Carlson You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. Chester Carlson success motivational moving The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying need for it-such a desirable thing if it could be obtained. So I set out to think of how one could be made. Chester Carlson office science thinking What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography. Chester Carlson bells telephones photography Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my own devising, making things, experimenting, and planning for the future. I had read of Thomas Alva Edison and other successful inventors, and the idea of making an invention appealed to me as one of the few available means to accomplish a change in one's economic status, while at the same time bringing to focus my interest in technical things and making it possible to make a contribution to society as well. Chester Carlson successful mean school Similar Authors Gabriel Lippmann physicist Burton Richter physicist Bruno Rossi physicist Bruce Maccabee physicist Brian Cox physicist Allan McLeod Cormack physicist All Authors
