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Alexander Murray and Richard Morse invented and patented the first analog color scanner at Eastman Kodak in 1937. Intended for color separation at printing presses, their machine was an analog drum scanner that imaged a color transparency mounted in the drum, with a light source placed underneath the film, and three photocells with red, green, and blue color filters reading each spot on the ...
Internet Archive Scribe book scanner in 2011 Internet Archive book scanner. Book scanning or book digitization (also: magazine scanning or magazine digitization) is the process of converting physical books and magazines into digital media such as images, electronic text, or electronic books (e-books) by using an image scanner. [1]
Scanner, the stage name of British electronic musician Robin Rimbaud; Scanner (Code Lyoko), a fictional teleportation device; Scanner , a floating enemy in the Half-Life video game series; Scanners, a 1981 science fiction horror film "Scanners" , an episode of the television series Superstore
The first light pen, at this time still called "light gun", was created around 1951–1955 as part of the Whirlwind I project at MIT, where it was used to select ...
Using the daguerreotype process, John Benjamin Dancer was one of the first to produce microphotographs, in 1839. [1] He achieved a reduction ratio of 160:1. Dancer refined his reduction procedures with Frederick Scott Archer's wet collodion process, developed in 1850–51, but he dismissed his decades-long work on microphotographs as a personal hobby and did not document his procedures.