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...
Inventions
Days [ ) The power of radio | Hallie Flanagan, 1889-1969
Portable radio in a straw hat, made by an American inventor, 1931 . "The power of radio is not that...
Emanuel Swedenborg | A poem by Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986
Emanuel Swedenborg The Flying Machine, sketched in his notebook, 1714 . Taller than the others, this man Walked among them,...
The aluminium Moka Express coffee maker | Alfonso Bialetti, 1933
Alfonso Bialetti ...
Days [ ) An Invention | Daphne du Maurier, 1938
Man Ray, Lee Miller sleeping, 1930 “If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent....
Alphabetarion # The gyroscope | Paul Morand
Albert H. Munsell hue circle, with indicative positions of the RGB primaries and secondaries, 1905 "Speed kills colour... the gyroscope,...
View from the Window / the first photograph | Nicéphore Niépce, 1826
View from the Window at Le Gras was the first photograph,by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826