英语词汇xerox的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	xerox
词源	Xerox. U.S. inventor Chester Carlson invented the Xerox machine in 1938 and Xerox remains a trademark of the compa- ny that makes it, its name deriving from xero, a learned bor- rowing from the Greek for “dry,” and graph, an element from the Greek meaning “drawn, written.” Inventor Carlson became a multimillionaire from royalties on his dry copier, the rights to which he sold to what is now the Xerox Corporation in 1947. See photostat.
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