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Who
Jonathon Mamin
Where
Switzerland (IBM's Zrich 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.