DESIGN

Why Tom Newman chose first page of A tale of two cities to win Feynman’s challenge?

(using an electron beam lithography machine )
do you know why he chose that specific novel to mark the start of nanotechnology?

Tom Newman won second prize!

The first prize was won by William McLellan. The motor, that the article quoted below mentions, was working when I saw it and you could press a button while looking through a microscope and watch the cube spin. Release the buton and it would slow down and stop.

” In parting, Feynman offered a pair of $1000 prizes. One was for the first person to create an operating electrical motor no larger than 1/64 in3. To Feynman’s dismay, William McLellan tediously did just that, using tweezers and a microscope, within 4 months of the speech. The motor had 13 parts, weighed 250 micrograms, and rotated at 2000 rpm. Feynman had been home from his honeymoon less than a week when he had to explain to his wife the promise he had made. They were not exactly financially prepared to divvy out prize money, but he did. (The motor, on display at Caltech, no longer spins.)”

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Scanning Electron Microscope: Pt 4 of 6

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