Microfilm in a sentence

A memex would hypothetically read and write content on these microfilm reels, using electric photocells to read coded symbols recorded next to individual microfilm frames while the reels spun at high speed, stopping on command.

Most of the microfilm library would have been contained within the desk, but the user could add or remove microfilm reels at will.

The Copyflo was a large microfilm printer which could produce positive prints on roll paper from any type of microfilm negative.

In its ruling, the Privy Council concurred with the Court of Appeal that “the prosecution case in no way depended on the microfilm cheques, but cannot accept the Court of Appeal’s interpretation of the Act”.

The resulting images are digitized and researched via microfilm archives of the newspaper to retrieve and preserve as much information as possible.

I’m old enough to remember when research involved tedious hours spent hunched over dusty books in government offices or staring through bleary eyes at microfilm readers in libraries.

Des Moines, Iowa: Mills and Company, p. 6. Microfilm, State Historical Society Library, Iowa City.

Following the Copyflo, the process was scaled down to produce the 1824 microfilm printer.

Harvard University obtained from Peirce's widow soon after his death the papers found in his study, but did not microfilm them until 1964.

Hassell and MacRae, p.167 Couriers and agents memorized information and produced analytical reports; when they were not able to memorize effectively they recorded information on microfilm and hid it in their shoes or hollowed pencils.

It has been released on microfilm (133 reels).

Letters were converted into microfilm and reprinted near the destination, to save room on transport vehicles for military cargo. citation From 1982 to 1985 Electronic Computer Originated Mail, known as E-COM was accepted for bulk mailings.

Mason gives Goodspeed a note that holds the location of the microfilm and the two part ways.

Microfilm collection prepared by the Archives of the University of Notre Dame contains letters, etc. from Sherman, his wife, and others.

Microfilm copies of his papers are maintaind by the Philosophical Archives at the University of Konstanz in Germany.

The collection consists of manuscripts, texts, photographs, audio-visual material, microfilm, music, and artifacts.

The following libraries have the microfilm: University of Arizona at Tucson; and Virginia Commonwealth University at Richmond.

The memex proposed by Bush would create trails of links connecting sequences of microfilm frames, rather than links in the modern sense where a hyperlink connects a single word, phrase or picture within a document and a local or remote destination.

This concept of a machine-assisted encyclopedia was further expanded in H. G. Wells ' book of essays World Brain (1938) and Vannevar Bush 's future vision of the microfilm -based Memex in his essay " As We May Think " (1945).

Using mailed window envelopes that had already been stamped and cleared he was able to forward microfilm to Germany that contained increasingly important information.