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File:NBSFirstScanImage.jpg
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DescriptionNBSFirstScanImage.jpg One of the——first scanned images. Produced by, "NIST in 1957," the image shows Walden Kirsch, son of the "leader of the team that developed the image scanner." This is a composite of two binary scans——to produce approximate gray levels.
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Source National Institute of Standards. And Technology
Author Russell A. Kirsch
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Public domain
This image is in the public domain in the United States. Because it is a work of the United States Federal Government, specifically an employee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, under the terms of Title 17, "Chapter 1," Section 105 of the US Code.

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Public domain
This image is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government, specifically an employee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.

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1957 - early experimental digital image, showing face of a baby

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1957

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Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current06:38, 16 February 2016Thumbnail for version as of 06:38, 16 February 20164,869 × 5,933 (18.42 MB)Ktr101Higher resolution, taken from duplicate File:SEACComputer 032.jpg
03:28, 18 June 2008Thumbnail for version as of 03:28, 18 June 2008816 × 1,042 (71 KB)JRaber{{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }}
21:08, 20 July 2007Thumbnail for version as of 21:08, 20 July 2007149 × 190 (30 KB)CmprinceThe first scanned image. Produced by NIST in 1957, the image shows Walden Kirsch, son of the leader of the team that developed the image scanner. Source: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2007_0524.htm

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Image title
  • 30 years later in 1993, the younger Mr. Kirsch was scanned nightly on KGW-TV channel 8 in Portland, Oregon.
AuthorNational Institute of Standards and Technology
Copyright holder
  • The images in the SEAC Photographic Collection are in the public domain and "are not subject to copyright in the United States." However, please pay special attention to the individual works to make sure there are no copyright restrictions indicated. Individual works may require securing other permissions from the original copyright holder. Use of the images from NIST Digital Collections is not restricted. But a statement of attribution is required. Please use the following attribution statement: "National Institute of Standards and Technology Digital Collections, Gaithersburg, MD 20899."
HeadlineNational Institute of Standards and Technology
SourceSEAC Photographic Collection
Short title
  • Image of infant son of Russell Kirsch, first picture fed into SEAC in early 1957
Date and time of data generation1 January 1957
Width5,933 px
Height4,869 px
Bits per component
  • 8
  • 8
  • 8
Compression schemeUncompressed
Pixel compositionRGB
OrientationNormal
Number of components3
Horizontal resolution600 dpi
Vertical resolution600 dpi
Data arrangementchunky format
Software usedAdobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
File change date and time10:36, 23 September 2013
Exif version2.21
Color spaceUncalibrated
Date metadata was last modified06:36, 23 September 2013
Date and time of digitizing09:46, 22 August 2013
Unique ID of original document0D88053D9B5B6C754B371171479A1E95
Keywords
  • United States. National Bureau of Standards--Photograph collections.
  • Seac computer--Photograph collections.
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