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Inventor who helped develop the photocopier dies

Inventor who helped develop the photocopier dies

Tributes have been paid to the inventor Robert W. Gundlach who has died aged 84.

Mr. Gundlach worked for the Xerox company for 43 years, during which time he developed 155 patents for the company.

He joined the company, which was then known as the Haloid Company, in 1952. He worked on the team which developed what was to become the first automatic plain-paper copier which was launched in 1959.

In 1966 Xerox selected him as its first research fellow. He was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame 2005.

Mr. Gundlach retired in 1995. His final invention for the company was an inkjet process that enabled glossy images to be reproduced on plain paper.

He is survived by his wife Audrey, and his two sons.

 

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