Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t possible. Yet companies ...

Only 3 of the original 298 Saab 21 fighters survive. But hidden in its twin-boom frame is a story of German blueprints smuggled on microfilm, 60 jets rushed into production, and an aircraft so strange ...

Over the past several years, they have worked with the database NewspaperArchive to digitize the library’s microfilm. They have gone from having just The Enquirer and the Cincinnati Post ...

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the ...

Father Lowrie J. Daly, 37-year-old instructor in medieval history, suggested that his superiors ask permission to make microfilm copies of as many as 42,000 rare and ancient manuscripts in the ...

In 1853, John Benjamin Dancer sold microphotographs on slides that had to be viewed through a microscope, and in 1859 the first patent for microfilm was issued. Around 1906, Tedium reports that French ...

The Ocean County Library has been awarded a $22,242 grant to digitize more than 40 years of The Ocean County Leader, the ...

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A majority of the collection is in the early stages of degradation, a result of the material the microfilm is made of — cellulose acetate. Introduced in the early 20th century to replace highly ...

Microfilm Magic In Addition to Its Better-Known Functions of Compressing Bulky Records Into Minute Spaces, Microfilming Is More Than Paying Its Way by Simplifying, or Completely Eliminating, Many ...

'Microfilm', that is, 35-mm. film coated with a fine-grained photographic emulsion and adapted to carry a series of images usually 24 mm. x 16 mm. or 24 mm. x 32 mm., ...