[Coco] Major sale of early computing collectibles
Neil Morrison
neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Mon Jan 31 18:17:00 EST 2005
http://www.christies.com/promos/feb05/1484/overview.asp
The Origins of Cyberspace:
A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications
Sale 1484
23 February 2005, 10:00 am
20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York
Highlights include:
. Edmund C. Berkeley's Giant brains or machines that think >
. Karel Capek's R.U.R. Rossum's universal robots >
. Joseph Marie Jacquard's manuscript on the Jacquard loom >
. Claude E. Shannon's "A symbolic analysis of relay and switching
circuits" >
. Alan Mathison Turing's "On computable numbers with an application to the
Entscheidungsproblem" >
. Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal
and the machine >
. The UNIVAC Short Code >
. J. Presper and John Mauchly's "Outline of plans for development of
electronic computers" >
For further information about The Origins of Cyberspace Library and to view
the reference catalogue, please visit
www.historyofscience.com
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