Featured on PDR in the essay Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
In 1853, John Benjamin Dancer achieved a feat of seemingly impossible scale: he shrunk an image to the size of a sharpened pencil tip. Anika Burgess explores the invention of microphotography and its influence on erotic paraphernalia and military communications.
Also appearing in the essay…
Microscopic dispatches, received in Paris by carrier pigeons, enlarged by the magic lantern
Artist
Date
1884
From
Chemistry, Developed by Facts and Principles Drawn Chiefly from the Non-Metals
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