Share When a technology company’s name enters the lexicon as a verb, they know they’ve made it—big. “To google” means to search for information online; “to zoom” refers to video conferencing; to “skype” means to make a video call. But the company that started the modern era trend, dating back to the 1960s, is Xerox. Unlike many of its younger tech counterparts, however, Xerox’s road to lexical glory was long and arduous. Chester Carlson, the inventor of electrophotography, or xerography, had been shopping his design for a decade before he…
