On 16 September 1959, The *first successful photocopier,* the Xerox 914, *was introduced*

The *Xerox 914* was the first successful commercial plain paper copier which in 1959 revolutionized the document-copying industry. The culmination of inventor *Chester Carlson's* work on the xerographic process, the 914 was fast and economical. The copier was introduced to the public on September 16, 1959, in a demonstration at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York, shown on live television.