# Nanotechnology / Engineering at the atomic scale

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Category: Technology
Slides: 13
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:45.744Z
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## Summary

Caltech, December 29, 1959 . Richard Feynman delivers the founding lecture of nanotechnology before the field exists. Key sections include: NANO TECH / NOLOGY; "Plenty of Room at the Bottom"; One nanometer is vanishingly small.; Scanning Tunneling Microscope / 1981; "IBM" in xenon atoms / 1989; A rolled sheet of graphene / 1991; One atom thick / 2004; Chemistry does the building for you.; Where nano already ships.; Patterning silicon at the atom limit..

## Slide Outline

1. NANO TECH / NOLOGY
2. "Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
3. One nanometer is vanishingly small.
4. Scanning Tunneling Microscope / 1981
5. "IBM" in xenon atoms / 1989
6. A rolled sheet of graphene / 1991
7. One atom thick / 2004
8. Chemistry does the building for you.
9. Where nano already ships.
10. Patterning silicon at the atom limit.
11. Toxicology hasn't caught up.
12. What nano is , and isn't.
13. Where to go next.

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