the.com/xerox
the copier so good it became a verb, then a lawsuit waiting to happen.
means to photocopy a document, named after the company that made copying machines a household fixture.
from from xerography, greek for dry writing (xeros = dry, graphein = write), invented by chester carlson in 1938 and commercialized by the haloid company, which renamed itself xerox in 1961 once the machines took over every office in america.
carlson's rejectionsover 20 companies passed on his invention first
trademark nightmarexerox spent decades fighting to stop genericization
first model namethe xerox 914, sold in 1959