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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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1957

Source

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Author

Russell A. Kirsch

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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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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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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:38, 15 February 2016	4,869 × 5,933 (18.42 MB)	Ktr101	Higher resolution, taken from duplicate File:SEACComputer 032.jpg

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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.
Author	National 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."
Date and time of data generation	1 January 1957
Width	5,933 px
Height	4,869 px
Bits per component	8 8 8
Compression scheme	Uncompressed
Pixel composition	RGB
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	600 dpi
Vertical resolution	600 dpi
Data arrangement	chunky format
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
File change date and time	10:36, 23 September 2013
Exif version	2.21
Color space	Uncalibrated
Date metadata was last modified	06:36, 23 September 2013
Date and time of digitizing	09:46, 22 August 2013
Unique ID of original document	0D88053D9B5B6C754B371171479A1E95
Headline	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Source	SEAC Photographic Collection
Keywords	United States. National Bureau of Standards--Photograph collections. Seac computer--Photograph collections.
Short title	Image of infant son of Russell Kirsch, first picture fed into SEAC in early 1957
Contact information	library@nist.gov 100 Bureau Dr, MS 2500 Gaithersburg, MD, 20899 301-975-3052
IIM version	4

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