stussy-demon Report This Comment
Date: October 20, 2004 02:16PM

Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving his time in Sing Sing prison in the late 1800s when guards found him dead in his cell. On his body they found seven regular straight pins whose heads measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or 1.17 millimeters in diameter. Under 500 magnification it was found that the tiny etchings seen on the heads of the pins were the words to The Lord's Prayer, which is 65 words and 254 letters long. Of the seven pins, six were silver and one was gold - the gold pin's prayer was flawless and a true masterpiece. Schiller had spent the last 25 years of his life creating the pins, using a tool too small to be seen by the naked eye. It is estimated that it took 1,863 sepatate carving strokes to make it. Schiller went blind because of his artwork.

ssi Report This Comment
Date: October 20, 2004 07:24PM

so...who decided "oh lets magnify the things this dead inmate left us, just for fun you know"

lil\'Diablo Report This Comment
Date: October 20, 2004 10:35PM

i imagine he left a note, as if he would do all of that for nothing.

Wayewan Report This Comment
Date: October 21, 2004 04:08PM

Yes but the note would have been too small to read so who decided to magnify that?

And he did do it for nothing ´cos it doesn´t exactly serve a purpose. Other than to have killed some time. And that could have been done with just one hand.

Dragonfire Report This Comment
Date: October 23, 2004 02:36PM

So he carved that message with a pin on a pin of the same size? That's like writing on a piece of paper the size of the pen tip. Imposible. Besides, how did he get past all the angels dancing on the tip?