Xerox << ZIHR oks >> Corporation is a company best known for its photocopying machines. It developed the first automatic copier that makes dry copies of printed or written materials on ordinary paper. Xerox manufactures equipment for the production and distribution of documents, black-and-white or color, in both paper and electronic form.
The corporation was founded in 1906 as The Haloid Company, a manufacturer of photocopying and photographic papers. In 1947, Haloid licensed patents for xerography, a process for making copies without ink or pressure, from Chester F. Carlson, the inventor of the process. The company perfected xerography in 1959 with its development of the Xerox 914, the first automatic, plain-paper office copier. The corporation, which has headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut, adopted its present name in 1961.
