Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

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• murdockq 176 days ago
  So is it possible we can trace the manufacture of microchip lithography to this? We've been able to minaturize things for some time using light.
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  • analog31 176 days ago
    Yes. Many of the principles are the same. And photilithography had uses before semiconductors.
• ggm-at-algebras 175 days ago
  Wasn't miniaturisation of photos used to get airmail out of the Paris commune in 1871? So less than 20 years after this.
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  • Y_Y 175 days ago
    > A microphotograph by René Dagron, containing military communications, transported by carrier pigeon during the Siege of Paris, 1871

    If only you'd read the fine article!