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History of Science & Technology, Including the "Romkey" Apple-1
2 July - 17 July 2025 • New York
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1. Crocker-Wheeler Electric Motor
Rare New York Issue, ca. 1893

2. Trippensee Planetarium
The Geo. M. Hendry Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, [Canada], 1908.

3. Karl Capek R.U.R. New York Theatre Guild Contract
The Popularization of the Term "Robot"
![[Albert Einstein]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6237471/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1318x2000+0+0/resize/150x228!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F9a%2F38%2F323e907643cfa503024e346e72d0%2Fn11835-db3w8-09-v2.jpg)
4. [Albert Einstein]
Album Containing Four Signed Photographs of Albert Einstein, With Eleven Additional Einstein Photographs, From His Journey to Japan Aboard the S.S. Kitano Maru, 1922

5. Albert Einstein
Autograph Quotation Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Carl Laubman, About the Virtues of Travel, 1927

6. Albert Einstein
Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952

7. Hebern 3-Rotor Encryption Machine
The First Electromechanical Rotor-Based Encryption Machine, One Of Only 13 Known Examples and the Only Example to Come to Auction, ca. 1920s

9. Hagelin
M-209-B Tactical Mechanical Cipher Machine, ca. 1945

10. NEMA Cipher Machine
The Swiss Successor to the Enigma Machine, One of Only 640 Built, ca. 1948

11. Fialka M-125
"The Russian Answer to the Enigma," ca. 1965

12. Trinitite
"Alamogordo Glass" Produced by the Trinity Test, the World's First Nuclear Bomb Blast

13. Fred Freeman
Art Relating to the USS Nautilus, the First Nuclear Submarine

14. Fred Freeman
Illustration of the Channel Tunnel’s British Portal (Presumably at Folkestone), ca. 1958

15. Fred Freeman
SEALAB I Illustration and Preliminary Sketch, The Saturday Evening Post, September 5, 1964

16. Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky Group of Awards
Pief Panofsky's 1961 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, National Medal of Science, Enrico Fermi Award, and Others
![[BINAC] Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia: Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, 1949.](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/5fc5436/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F55%2F78%2Fd2e57d6e4409931b225fd540db80%2Fn11835-db3wb-01.jpg)
17. [BINAC] Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia: Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, 1949.
The Only Known Copy of the First Electronic Computer Manual

18. ISEC 250 Stock Market Computer
A Personal Desktop Computer for the Small Investor, ca. 1967

19. Apple-1 Computer
The Finest Operational Apple-1 in Existence, from the first batch of 50 hand built by Wozniak and Jobs in 1976

20. Apple Computer, Inc.
Apple II Rev 0. Personal Computer, ca. 1977

21. Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977
One of the Earliest Steve Jobs Business Cards to Appear at Auction

22. Apple Computer, Inc.
Original Apple Logo Light, ca. 1990s

23. Apple Computer, Inc.
Double-Sided "Apple Center" Lighted Sign With Rainbow Apple Logo, ca. 1980s-90s

24. Cray-2
Cray-2 Supercomputer Module - Signed by Supercomputer Legend Seymour Cray, 1985

25. Seymour Cray; Cray-3
Manuscript Cray-3 Logbook, 1989-90. — The Only Significant Cray Manuscript to Come to Auction

26. Cray-3
Cray-3 Prototype Module. One of the First Built and Personally Tested by Cray — Signed by Cray, 1989

27. Cray-3
Supercomputer Module & Component Group, ca. 1990

28. Cray-4
Cray-4 Memory Module, for the Never-Completed Supercomputer, ca. 1994

29. Algorithmic Art
An Extensive Archive of Early Computer Art Featuring Works by Vera Molnar, Manfred Mohr, Christian Cavadia, Aldo Giornini, Grace Hertlein, and Others, 1950s-70s
![OFEY [Pseudonym of Richard Feynman]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/481a346/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1632+0+0/resize/150x122!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F9e%2Fa9%2F5638dca24037b87a055f5e09efc7%2Fn11835-cvjvd-bi-t2-02.jpg)
30. OFEY [Pseudonym of Richard Feynman]
Drawing of a Young Woman, 1968
![Harold Cohen: [Artificial Intelligence & Art]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8689775/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1577+0+0/resize/150x118!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F25%2Fc6%2F79c9dd8048939a467f14df084b9a%2Fn11835-db9jx-t3-02.jpg)
31. Harold Cohen: [Artificial Intelligence & Art]
AARON Original Drawing, 1984