Teeny Ted world's tiniest book
2007-04-13 19:19
Vancouver - Canadian researchers said on Wednesday they have produced the world's
smallest published book, a story of a turnip contest that will
require readers to use an electron microscope.
The book, entitled Teeny Ted from Turnip Town, measures
0.07 mm by 0.10 mm and was made using a focused gallium-ion
beam to carve out spaces around each letter on pieces of
crystalline silicon, according to Simon Fraser University.
That is smaller than the head of a pin, which is about 2 mm
in size, according to the researchers
The book is tinier than two cited in the Guinness Book of
World Records as the world's smallest, a copy of the New
Testament of the King James Bible, made in 2001, and a 2002
production of Anton Chekhov's Chameleon, the researchers
said.
Each of the "nano books" is made up of 30 micro tablets.
The
story is described by the Vancouver university as a "fable
about Teeny Ted's victory in a turnip contest at the annual
country fair."
- Reuters