
History of Science & Technology
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1. Henry Gregory
Azimuth Compass, 18th century

2. J & W Cary
A Pair of 21-Inch Terrestrial and Celestial Library Globes

3. William Harris & Co.
Brass Planetarium & Tellurium

4. Trippensee Planetarium
Detroit, c.1908
![[Thomas Alva Edison]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0f82009/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fa2%2F43%2F2599eb6e4e119537a7e33d274b04%2Fn12210-dhfl3-t2-01.jpg)
5. [Thomas Alva Edison]
Self-Winding Stock Ticker, Model 35-A

6. Thomas Alva Edison
Agreement to Incorporate the Edison Electric Light Company, November 1878

7. Thomas Alva Edison
Edison's Exclusive Lightbulb Contract with Original Drawing

8. Thomas Alva Edison
Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company

9. Thomas Alva Edison
Edison Signed Agreements with the Edison Electric Light Company

10. Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Edison Reveals His Finances in Letter

11. Alexander Graham Bell
Signed Photograph at "the First Transcontinental Phone Call"

12. Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

13. Melville Feynman
Autograph Letter Signed (“Dad”), to Lucille, Richard, and Joan Feynman, Written Facing Possibility of Death, Aug. 17, 1938
![[Richard P. Feynman]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/39832ce/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1758x2000+0+0/resize/150x171!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Ffc%2F66%2F0d06967349b4b7d6088b9c949a97%2Fn12210-cj2pg-bi-04.jpg)
14. [Richard P. Feynman]
Autograph Letter to Lucille Feynman, Describing His Work Schedule at Princeton, October 3, 1939
![R[ichard] P. F[eynman]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/463cc25/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1357+0+0/resize/150x102!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Ffc%2F25%2F7d541f6b418e9b907aa640b5dfd4%2Fn12210-cj2pm-bi-02.jpg)
15. R[ichard] P. F[eynman]
Autograph Letter Signed (“RPF”) 3 pp., October 13, 1940
![R[ichard] P. F[eynman]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c77ba12/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1570x2000+0+0/resize/150x191!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fb2%2F84%2F757e136a48b0820907fd0e52ebcd%2Fn12210-cj2pj-bi-02.jpg)
16. R[ichard] P. F[eynman]
Autograph Letter Signed (“RPF”), to His Sister Joan Feynman, Advising Her to Challenge Herself Academically
![R[ichard] P. F[eynman]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b8c6639/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1375x2000+0+0/resize/150x218!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fd9%2Fa8%2F371162444d6b94b74a466eb4d76b%2Fn12210-cj2pl-bi-02.jpg)
17. R[ichard] P. F[eynman]
Autograph Letter Signed ("R.P.F."), to Lucille Feynman, Discussing Pine Needle Tea as Scurvy Treatment, October 7, 1943

18. Richard P. Feynman
Group of letters to Arline
![[Richard P. Feynman]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bd106c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1681+0+0/resize/150x126!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F41%2Ffb%2Fa75b850f454b8f2baf88a7a8b54a%2Fn12210-cj2p7-bi-02.jpg)
19. [Richard P. Feynman]
Autograph Letter Signed (“Dick.”), Reassuring His Father of His Love for the Family, c. 1945-46.
![John Wheeler; [Richard P. Feynman]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2807616/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F42%2F2c%2F1f674e3e448cab8c01f21aee4061%2Fn12210-dndyn-t2-01.jpg)
20. John Wheeler; [Richard P. Feynman]
Typed letter signed ("John"), to Richard Feynman ("Dick"), regarding the delayed publication of Feynman's thesis, and their various joint publications. Princeton, NJ, January 5, 1946.
![[Richard P. Feynman]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4940db9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1667x2000+0+0/resize/150x180!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fdf%2Fef%2F0d7daa044f7884a0ae41cf0d6fec%2Fn12210-btffm-bi-01.jpg)
21. [Richard P. Feynman]
Study For "Portrait of a Woman," c. 1967

22. Richard P. Feynman
Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971

23. Phantom Photographic Unit
Camera Prototype by Noel Pemberton Billing

24. German WWII Infrared Optics
Secret Submarine Optics System

25. Kryha Liliput Cipher Machine

26. A Pair of Hagelin CD-57 Pocket Cipher Devices, 1957
![[DNA]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/251c4c4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F22%2F1b%2F5999866a4409b97a52998ba2fa93%2Fn12210-djpxg-t1-01.jpg)
27. [DNA]
Watson & Crick - Original Cavendish Laboratory Model
![[Linus Pauling]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0dcc45c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Ff2%2F25%2Fd3cf79f349b4b2e01121252f4f5f%2Fn12210-djvsw-t2-01.jpg)
28. [Linus Pauling]
Pair of Polypeptide Chain Models
![[DNA - IRVING GEIS]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ea3cba9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2632x2861+0+0/resize/150x163!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F0c%2F50%2F901c717844cab9bd745bf7587d34%2Fn12210-djpxh-t2-02-cropped.jpg)
29. [DNA - IRVING GEIS]
"Hot Wire A-DNA," Original Painting

30. Harold Ticho Physics Archive
Harold Ticho’s artifacts and documents from his work with Luis Alvarez’s Nobel Prize-Winning bubble chamber group, and more.

31. 2009 Nobel Prize Medal in Physics Awarded to Willard Boyle, for His Work on Digital Photography Technology

32. 1973 J. Lawrence Smith Medal Awarded to Clair Patterson, for His Work Determining the True Age of the Earth
24 Karat Gold Medal, 12.153 Troy Ounces, Awarded by the National Academy of Sciences, Alongside One of Patterson's Canyon Diablo Meteorite Samples

33. Claude Shannon
“A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits," 1938

34. Norbert Wiener
Early Publication from the Originator of Cybernetics

35. Vannevar Bush
“As We May Think,” 1945
![[Harvard Mark I]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f7d5317/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F75%2Ff9%2Fc5ff32554d3a84dd81e1b3e3a42e%2Fn12210-dly58-t2-01.jpg)
36. [Harvard Mark I]
Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper, First Computer Manual

37. Claude Shannon
“A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” 1948
![[Transistors & Semi-Conductors]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e1a546a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fae%2F9d%2F8d90f911424e9021d2995ed94439%2Fn12210-dly5h-t2-01.jpg)
38. [Transistors & Semi-Conductors]
Group of the Earliest Publications by the Originators of Transistor Technology

39. CLAUDE SHANNON
Early Publications on Information Science and Computing
![[MIT: Automatically Programmed Tool Language II]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/60eeae0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fbe%2F54%2F6c649a824efdbe2c24786c3e28dd%2Fn12210-djmmp-t2-01.jpg)
40. [MIT: Automatically Programmed Tool Language II]
MIT-Issued Souvenir Produced by Early CNC Technology

41. Ivan Sutherland
Sketchpad, 1963, on Computer Aided Design

42. Mark-8 Minicomputer
Rare 1974 Personal Computer

43. MITS Altair 8800 Computer
1974 8-Bit Microcomputer
![[BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e4738ec/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fc3%2F97%2F3f4287b4419490e6a35e3999c536%2Fn12210-dkns7-t2-01.jpg)
44. [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]
A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions

45. Apple-1 Computer
Operational Apple-1 Offered by the Original 1976 Byte Shop Purchaser, from the First Batch of 50 Examples

46. Apple Computer
Apple-1 Operation Manual, 1976

47. Apple Computer Inc.
Original Apple Logo Retail Sign, c.1990s

48. Apple Computer, Inc.
Apple IIc Setup Sealed in Original Packaging