https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_imaging#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_imaging#History > The first digital image was produced in 1920, by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_imaging#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_imaging#History > The first digital image was produced in 1920, by the Bartlane cable picture transmission system. British inventors, Harry G. Bartholomew and Maynard D. McFarlane, developed this method. The process consisted of “a series of negatives on zinc plates that were exposed for varying lengths of time, thus producing varying densities,”. The Bartlane cable picture transmission system generated at both its transmitter and its receiver end a punched data card or tape that was recreated as an image. > In 1957, Russell A. Kirsch produced a device that generated digital data that could be stored in a computer; this used a drum scanner and photomultiplier tube. So Kirsch was a pioneer in creating a device that could store images in a computer. That is something he should be remembered for. This "inventor of the pixel" thing is just weird, though. Pixels can clearly exist outside of computers, and did so before 1957. Not to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic#History .