The Smallest Bible in the World"NCR Microfilm"Circa 1966

Hello Followers, Visitors, Members and Friends from Collectors Weekly, 17-03-2017, 9:00 PM
Few month ago I bought a 1915 Bausch & Lomb Microscope at my local thrift shop(i did't post yet), I found in the wooden case this NCR 1966 PCMI (Microfilm) witch have on it, the complete Bible new and old testament, it's incredible the technology at the time in the 60S, this little plastic sheet(1.25 inch by 1.25 inch) contain 1245 pages, I could imagine today what they can achieve in this domain, we just have to look what they did with tablet and Cell phone, and this is what we know, many thing we don't know about yet, beautiful thing to come....

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In 1966 the Research and Development department of National Cash Register (NCR) of Dayton, Ohio produced an edition of all 1245 pages of the World Publishing Company's No. 715 Bible on a single 2" x 1-3/4" photochromatic microform (PCMI) The microform contained both the Old Testament on 773 pages and the New Testament on 746 pages, and was issued in a paper sleeve with title on the cover and information about the process inside and on the back.

On the microform each page of double column Bible text was about 0.5 mm wide and 1 mm high. Each text character was 8 um high (ie 8/1000ths of a millimeter). NCR noted on the paper wallet provided with the microform that this represented a linear reduction of about 250:1 or an area reduction of 62,500:1. This would correspond to the original text being circa 2 mm high. To put this into perspective, NCR also noted that if this reduction was used on the millions of books on the 270+ miles of shelving in the Library of Congress, the entire Library of Congress as it existed in 1966 could be stored in six standard filing cabinets.

? In 1971 Apollo 14Offsite Link lunar module pilot Edgar D. MitchellOffsite Link carried 100 of the microform bibles aboard the lunar module AntaresOffsite Link, as confirmed by NASA's official manifest. Launched January 31, 1971, Mitchell and the bibles reached the Fra MauroOffsite Link formation of the Moon on February 5 aboard the Antares before returning to the command module for the voyage back to Earth. This was the first edition of the Bible to reach the Moon, and probably the first book of any kind of reach the moon and return. A second parcel containing 200 microform Bibles flew in Edgar Mitchell's command module "PPK" bag in lunar orbit, and did not land. These 200 copies represented extra Bibles to be used if something happened to the lunar module copies.