page_title: Russell Kirsch
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Russell Kirsch / Background
caption_attribution_description: One of the first scanned images. Produced by NIST in 1957, the image shows Walden Kirsch, son of the leader of the team that developed the image scanner. This is a composite of two binary scans to produce approximate gray levels.
context_page_description: Russell A. Kirsch was an American engineer at the National Bureau of Standards. He was recognized as the developer of the first digital image scanner.
caption: Pioneering digitally scanned image of Russell Kirsch's son Walden, 1957
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