- Who
- Jonathon Mamin
- Where
- Switzerland (IBM's Zrich laboratory)
- When
- 1992
In 1992, Dr Jonathon Mamin of IBMs Zürich laboratory used sudden electrical pulses to create a map of the Western Hemisphere from atoms. The map has a scale of one trillion to one, and has a diameter of about one micron (one millionth of a meter), which is about one hundredth of the diameter of a human hair.