Roland M. Schaffert

Schaffert (1905-1991) lived near Hayes Center, Hayes County, and at Crete. Physicist, educator, supervisor of Graphic Arts Research at Battelle Memorial Institute, codeveloped photocopy machine, delivered the first public technical paper on the process ten years after Chester Carlson invented the concept, worked for Xerox Corporation and IBM, held more than 30 patents, authored Electrophotography in 1965, which became the “bible” in its field. Consult Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol 38 (December 1948) 991-998 and John H. Dessauer, My Years With Xerox (Doubleday 1971) and The Journal Of Imaging Science and Technology, Vol 36 (March/April 1992) p.v and Crete /NE/ News, March 2, 2005, p. C-4.

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