Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Wednesday: highlighters

Today I was using a highlighter and making copies and realized how cool it is that highlighters are almost invisable when you make copies.

That prompted the question...which came first: the Xerox or the highlighter? My guess was the highlighter. I went to wikipedia.

The highlighter was invented in 1962. The photocopier hit the markets in 1959.

2 comments:

dad deyoung said...

My yellow highlighter photocopies as black and the material you highlighted can't be seen. What's up?

The Accidental Boilermaker said...

who knew? i would have bet the highlighter