First digital image
- Who
- Russell Kirsch
- What
- First
- Where
- United States (Washington DC,)
- When
- 1957
The first digital image was created by Russell Kirsch (USA) in 1957 at the National Bureau of Standards, Washington DC, USA. The image was of Kirsch's baby son, Walden.
Kirsch was working on the first internally programmable computer in the United States, the Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC). He developed equipment that translated his picture into binary code. The image was 176 by 176 pixels (also setting the standard for square pixels), built from roughly one one-thousandth the information in pictures captured with digital cameras of 2010.