That tool is microfiche, the plasticky film used to archive old print
content, and it has a surprisingly diverse history—one that starts with a
guy named John Benjamin Dancer.
In 1839, Dancer, whose father owned an optical goods firm, combined his
family's chosen trade with the then-new daguerreotype process of
photography, and started tinkering.
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