Manufacturer: Haloid Xerox Inc., Rochester, NY, USA

Model: X18

Y.O.M: ca 1958

Serial No.: 18U-70607

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Restored: 2018

Description:

Haloid Photographic Company was founded in Rochester, NY, in 1906. In 1938, Chester Carlson, a physicist, invented a copying process using an electrically charged metal plate and dry powder toner. He joined Haloid in 1946 and continued to develop his invention “xerography” as coined by Haloid. Xerography came from two Greek words meaning “dry-writing”. In 1958, the company changed its name to Haloid-Xerox, and then to Xerox Corporation in 1961.

Our Fusing Unit, built ca 1958, was one component of a Haloid Xerox platemaking system which included a camera, processor, and used for making paper plates for offset duplicators such as AM Multilith and alike.