MICROSCOPIC WRITING.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 169, 8 December 1896, Page 6

MICROSCOPIC WRITING.

TO THE EDITOR. SlE — Although not wishing in any way to disparage the marvellous achievements of Mr, C. F. Giesen with his pen, I would like to point out the still more marvellous feats which have been accomplished with the "Bramond," which, on account of the cohesive property of its particles, is capable of taking an almost infinitesimal point. Mr. Stinns, late Principal of Highbury College, London, had in his collection a small piece of glass on which was written the Lord's Prayer, the whole writing occupying less space than the tiniest dot made with a fine pen. If the whole of the New Testament were written the same size it would occupy less space than that of asmall thumb nail. And he states that when Mr. Farrants was President of this Microscopical Society, that gentleman told them that the Lord's Prayer had been written in the 356,000 th part of an inch. This being true would establish the possibility of writing the whole of the 3,566,480 letters of the Old and New Testament 22 times in the space of one English square inch. I am, &c, Hedley P. Evans. Manners-street, 4th December, 1896.