When was the last time you walked to the corner stationery shop? Most of these shops double up as mobile recharge dispensers & photocopy stations.   As the world goes digital the physical photocopying business has lost some of its foothold to scanning. Well, 16 th September 1959 was a monumental day in the world of photocopying & this weekend’s GK nugget will shed some light on that.  16 th September 1959 was the day when the Xerox 914 , the first successful commercial plain paper copier (which revolutionized the document-copying industry) was introduced to the public in a demonstration at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York, shown on live television. Chester Carlson , the inventor of photocopying, was a patent attorney who invented the technology since he found the task of making multiple copies of important papers by hand extremely tedious. He experimented with photoconductivity to develop a process called ‘ electrophotography ’ which ...