Talk:Microdot

message: What made the microdot so successful? How did they make the words into the dot?
:What made it so successful is it's immense usefulness. Armies during wars, and spies at all times, needed a secret way of sending pages of information. Instructions, maps, reports, all sorts of things. This was before electronic or radio communication, but microdots are still useful. 
:How it's done, is by photography. You photograph something, a page of text, or a photograph. Then you process the film, then project the image onto the microdot, which is a tiny piece of film. The shrinking is done the same way labs make enlargements of photographs, only obviously it's made smaller instead of larger.
:BTW there's a method for asking questions on Wikipedia pages, have a quick look at the help.  188.29.164.229 (talk) 19:22, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
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message: Does anyone have any information they can add to this article about the amount of information which can be stored on (say) a 1mm microdot, or the degree to which images can be shrunk down such that they can still be recovered intact?
It's surprising that this hasn't already been added to the article; I would have thought it would be one of the first things anyone would ask about them? Nuwewsco (talk) 19:49, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
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message: The claim that a mythic "Prof. Zapp" invented the microdot is based on a statement by Herbert Hoover. Hoover had seen a German microdot from South America but intercepted by British intelligence and given to the FBI by double-agent Dusko Popov in August 1941. Hoover wrote, "the famous Professor Zapp, inventor of the microdot process, at the technical high school in Dresden." There was no Zapp in Dresden at the time, and people likely substituted Walter Zapp, inventor of the Minox subminiature camera. A microdot camera developer in Leipzig, Kurt Zapp, was assigned by German security agency to adapt Goldberg's techniques, but he was neither a professor or the inventor. (Buckland 2006: 245-246, referring to William White's work including "The Microdot: Then and Now " (1989, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence); "Subminiature Photography" (1990, Focal Press); "The Microdot: History and Application" (1992, Phillips Publications). 
--Reagle (talk) 17:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Glad to have the information here. It has the ring of truth, or of very convincing legend. Thanks. But would that not be J E Hoover? ww (talk) 18:06, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
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message: Really? How can we not have a pic? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:13, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
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