History of Science & Technology

History of Science & Technology

History of Science & Technology

History of Science & Technology

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Henry Gregory

1. Henry Gregory

Azimuth Compass, 18th century

J & W Cary

2. J & W Cary

A Pair of 21-Inch Terrestrial and Celestial Library Globes

William Harris & Co.

3. William Harris & Co.

Brass Planetarium & Tellurium

Trippensee Planetarium

4. Trippensee Planetarium

Detroit, c.1908

[Thomas Alva Edison]

5. [Thomas Alva Edison]

Self-Winding Stock Ticker, Model 35-A

Thomas Alva Edison

6. Thomas Alva Edison

Agreement to Incorporate the Edison Electric Light Company, November 1878

Thomas Alva Edison

7. Thomas Alva Edison

Edison's Exclusive Lightbulb Contract with Original Drawing

Thomas Alva Edison

8. Thomas Alva Edison

Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company

Thomas Alva Edison

9. Thomas Alva Edison

Edison Signed Agreements with the Edison Electric Light Company

Thomas Alva Edison

10. Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Edison Reveals His Finances in Letter

Alexander Graham Bell

11. Alexander Graham Bell

Signed Photograph at "the First Transcontinental Phone Call"

Albert Einstein

12. Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Melville Feynman

13. Melville Feynman

Autograph Letter Signed (“Dad”), to Lucille, Richard, and Joan Feynman, Written Facing Possibility of Death, Aug. 17, 1938

[Richard P. Feynman]

14. [Richard P. Feynman]

Autograph Letter to Lucille Feynman, Describing His Work Schedule at Princeton, October 3, 1939

R[ichard] P. F[eynman]

15. R[ichard] P. F[eynman]

Autograph Letter Signed (“RPF”) 3 pp., October 13, 1940

R[ichard] P. F[eynman]

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]

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

Richard P. Feynman

18. Richard P. Feynman

Group of letters to Arline

[Richard P. Feynman]

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]

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]

21. [Richard P. Feynman]

Study For "Portrait of a Woman," c. 1967

Richard P. Feynman

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

Phantom Photographic Unit

23. Phantom Photographic Unit

Camera Prototype by Noel Pemberton Billing

German WWII Infrared Optics

24. German WWII Infrared Optics

Secret Submarine Optics System

Kryha Liliput Cipher Machine

25. Kryha Liliput Cipher Machine

A Pair of Hagelin CD-57 Pocket Cipher Devices, 1957

26. A Pair of Hagelin CD-57 Pocket Cipher Devices, 1957

[DNA]

27. [DNA]

Watson & Crick - Original Cavendish Laboratory Model

[Linus Pauling]

28. [Linus Pauling]

Pair of Polypeptide Chain Models

[DNA - IRVING GEIS]

29. [DNA - IRVING GEIS]

"Hot Wire A-DNA," Original Painting

Harold Ticho Physics Archive

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.

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

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

1973 J. Lawrence Smith Medal Awarded to Clair Patterson, for His Work Determining the True Age of the Earth

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

Claude Shannon

33. Claude Shannon

“A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits," 1938

Norbert Wiener

34. Norbert Wiener

Early Publication from the Originator of Cybernetics

Vannevar Bush

35. Vannevar Bush

“As We May Think,” 1945

[Harvard Mark I]

36. [Harvard Mark I]

Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper, First Computer Manual

Claude Shannon

37. Claude Shannon

“A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” 1948

[Transistors & Semi-Conductors]

38. [Transistors & Semi-Conductors]

Group of the Earliest Publications by the Originators of Transistor Technology

CLAUDE SHANNON

39. CLAUDE SHANNON

Early Publications on Information Science and Computing

[MIT: Automatically Programmed Tool Language II]

40. [MIT: Automatically Programmed Tool Language II]

MIT-Issued Souvenir Produced by Early CNC Technology

Ivan Sutherland

41. Ivan Sutherland

Sketchpad, 1963, on Computer Aided Design

Mark-8 Minicomputer

42. Mark-8 Minicomputer

Rare 1974 Personal Computer

MITS Altair 8800 Computer

43. MITS Altair 8800 Computer

1974 8-Bit Microcomputer

[BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]

44. [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]

A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions

Apple-1 Computer

45. Apple-1 Computer

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

Apple Computer

46. Apple Computer

Apple-1 Operation Manual, 1976

Apple Computer Inc.

47. Apple Computer Inc.

Original Apple Logo Retail Sign, c.1990s

Apple Computer, Inc.

48. Apple Computer, Inc.

Apple IIc Setup Sealed in Original Packaging