History of Science & Technology, Including the "Romkey" Apple-1

History of Science & Technology, Including the "Romkey" Apple-1

History of Science & Technology, Including the "Romkey" Apple-1

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History of Science & Technology, Including the "Romkey" Apple-1

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Crocker-Wheeler Electric Motor

1 Crocker-Wheeler Electric Motor

Rare New York Issue, ca. 1893

Trippensee Planetarium

2 Trippensee Planetarium

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

Karl Capek R.U.R. New York Theatre Guild Contract

3 Karl Capek R.U.R. New York Theatre Guild Contract

The Popularization of the Term "Robot"

[Albert Einstein]

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

Albert Einstein

5 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

6 Albert Einstein

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

Hebern 3-Rotor Encryption Machine

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

Hagelin

9 Hagelin

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

NEMA Cipher Machine

10 NEMA Cipher Machine

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

Fialka M-125

11 Fialka M-125

"The Russian Answer to the Enigma," ca. 1965

Trinitite

12 Trinitite

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

Fred Freeman

13 Fred Freeman

Art Relating to the USS Nautilus, the First Nuclear Submarine

Fred Freeman

14 Fred Freeman

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

Fred Freeman

15 Fred Freeman

SEALAB I Illustration and Preliminary Sketch, The Saturday Evening Post, September 5, 1964

Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky Group of Awards

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.

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

ISEC 250 Stock Market Computer

18 ISEC 250 Stock Market Computer

A Personal Desktop Computer for the Small Investor, ca. 1967

Apple-1 Computer

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

Apple Computer, Inc.

20 Apple Computer, Inc.

Apple II Rev 0. Personal Computer, ca. 1977

Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977

21 Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977

One of the Earliest Steve Jobs Business Cards to Appear at Auction

Apple Computer, Inc.

22 Apple Computer, Inc.

Original Apple Logo Light, ca. 1990s

Apple Computer, Inc.

23 Apple Computer, Inc.

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

Cray-2

24 Cray-2

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

Seymour Cray; Cray-3

25 Seymour Cray; Cray-3

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

Cray-3

26 Cray-3

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

Cray-3

27 Cray-3

Supercomputer Module & Component Group, ca. 1990

Cray-4

28 Cray-4

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

Algorithmic Art

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]

30 OFEY [Pseudonym of Richard Feynman]

Drawing of a Young Woman, 1968

Harold Cohen: [Artificial Intelligence & Art]

31 Harold Cohen: [Artificial Intelligence & Art]

AARON Original Drawing, 1984