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History of Science & Technology, Including the "Romkey" Apple-1
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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"
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
Albert Einstein
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
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
30 OFEY [Pseudonym of Richard Feynman]
Drawing of a Young Woman, 1968
31 Harold Cohen: [Artificial Intelligence & Art]
AARON Original Drawing, 1984