This microscope consequently made it possible to see atoms and move them around in structure surfaces so as to endow them with properties and functions they do not possess naturally.. In visionary speech that has since become famous, given in before the American Physical Society, he asserted that it would one day be possible to store the entire content of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of pin by writing tiny letters with atoms reorganized on their surface.

In visionary speech that has since become famous, given in before the American Physical Society, he asserted that it would one day be possible to store the entire content of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of pin by writing tiny letters with atoms reorganized on their surface. This microscope consequently made it possible to see atoms and move them around in structure surfaces so as to endow them with properties and functions they do not possess naturally..