[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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