The Smallest Book in The World

The Smallest Book - Teeny Ted from Turnip Town

The smallest book in the world is Teeny Ted from Turnip Town. It was published in 2007 by Robert Chaplin. Robert Chaplin is a Canadian artist and publisher. He was born at January 17, 1968 in Smithers, British Columbia. His practices are carving gem stones, making sculptures, drawing pictures, writing stories, and publishing books. He studied Fine Art at the University of Victoria. He holds the Guinness World Record for publishing the world's smallest book.

Teeny Ted from Turnip Town was produced in Nano Imaging Laboratory at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, with the assistance of SFU scientist Li Yang and Karen Kavanagh. The book's size is 0.07 mm x 0.10 mm. This book was made with nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. USA has invested 3.7 billion dollars, The European Union has invested 1.2 billion and Japan 750 million dollars in nanotechnology research. The words of this book are carved into 30 microtablets on a piece of a single crystalline silicon, using a focused gallium ion beam with a minimum diameter of 7 nanometers. A nanometer is about 10 atoms in size. The story of Teeny Ted from Turnip Town was written by Malcolm Douglas Chaplin, is a fable about Teeny Ted's victory in the turnip contest at the annual country fair. The book has been published in a limited edition of 100 copies by the laboratory. To read this book we need a scanning electron microscope.In December 2012, a Library Edition of the book was published with a full title of Teeny Ted from Turnip Town and the Tale of Scale : A Scientific Book of Word Puzzle. On the title page it is refered as the "Large Print Edition of the World's Smallest Book.