Alphabetarion # Neither | Benjamin Franklin, 1771-1790
Iannis Xenakis, Étude pour points lumineux diatope, 1975, detail “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a littletemporary...
Benjamin Franklin
Maelzel’s Chess Player / The Turk | Wolfgang von Kempelen, 1769 – Edgar Allan Poe, 1836
The automated chess player "The Turk," as depicted in an engraving. . "Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by...