MICROSCOPIC WRITING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 March 1927, Page 11

MICROSCOPIC WRITING.

complete calendar for the i>resent year has been completed by Mr. Howland Rispin. a Derbyshire man. the whole of which is contained in so small a space that it can be covered by a threepenny piece, and can, it is said, be read without the aid of a magnifying glass.

Mr. ftspin, who is a railway coachbuilder, has many similar achievements his credit. Sixteen years ago he wrote one of Mr. Lloyd George’s speeches, consisting of 2366 words, on the back of a postcard measuring Sin by 3Jin. The card contained 100 lines of writing, and the task occupied Mr. Rispin eight ana a-quarter hours.

Some time ago the Queen of Italy received from an Italian in the United States a postcard on which the sender had written a history of Montenegro compressed into 1000 words, each perfectly legible and easily read. But Mr. Rispin would scarcely think that much of an achievement, seeing that he succeeded in crowding nearly twice as many words into the same space.

But far more wonderful were the specimens of microscopic writing done by the late Mr William Webb, F.R.M.S. though Mr Webb accomplished his marvels with a machine he invented. He used the machine for writing on slides for use in microscopes, and produced a series of twenty varying sizes of writing, the smallest of which would have enabled the whol econtents fo the Bible to have been written fifty-nine times in the space of one square inch.