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Interactive Timeline
Date added: 13 Jan 2012
This interactive timeline highlights three decades of nanotechnology leadership at IBM. Two milestone IBM inventions—the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) in 1981 and the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in 1986—provided researchers around the world with the specialized tools they needed to explore the nano-cosm and manipulate materials at the atomic level for the first time.