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20世纪30年代,在美国一家大公司里,有一位名叫切斯特·卡尔森的工程师。此人善于动脑,业务精通,业余时间还喜欢搞些小发明,因此他常常有些“古怪”的想法。一天,他到公司秘书处修理电器,看到秘书忙得不可开交:一会儿要抄写几份同样内容的文件,送交各个部门;一会儿又要画几张设计图,呈送给各位董事。这种情形使他又冒出了一个“古怪”的想法:要是有一台能够翻印相同文件或图案的机器就好了。此后几天里,他吃不香,睡不稳,脑子里老是浮现出新机器的形象。他想:如能发明这种机器,一定是很有
In the 1930s, there was an engineer named Chester Carlson at a major U.S. company. This person is good at brains, proficient in business, spare time also like to engage in some small inventions, so he often has some “odd” ideas. One day he went to the company’s secretariat to repair the electrical appliances and saw that the secretary was too busy with his job: for a while, he would copy several documents of the same content and send it to all departments. Then he would draw several plans and present them to the directors. This situation led him to a “quirky” idea: it would be nice to have a machine that could print the same document or pattern. The next few days, he was not fragrant, sleep instability, my mind always emerge a new image of the machine. He thought: If this kind of machine can be invented, it must be very good