Copies In Seconds: How A Lone Inventor And An Unknown Company Created The B...

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Book Title: Copies in Seconds : How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of Xerox

Item Length: 8.5in

Item Height: 0.8in

Item Width: 5.5in

Author: David Owen

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Economic History, General, Industrial Technology, Science & Technology, Corporate & Business History

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Year: 2005

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History

Item Weight: 11.9 Oz

Number of Pages: 320 Pages