The Strange History of Microfilm, Which Will Be With Us for Centuries
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PeterK
Jun 26, 2016, 12:09:05 PM6/26/16
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That tool is microfiche, the plasticky film used to archive old print content, and it has a surprisingly diverse history—one that starts with a guy named John Benjamin Dancer.
In 1839, Dancer, whose father owned an optical goods firm, combined his family's chosen trade with the then-new daguerreotype process of photography, and started tinkering.
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