Software, hardware, art – a blog of process and findings
Every since the Radiohead song of the same name popped up in my iTunes shuffle today, I’m feeling the telex love. Above is the Siemens T100 machine which, if anyone is wondering what to get my for my birthday, this would be it 😊
Another shot of the T100.
A Siemens and Halske “fast-acting type printing telegraph; average 2000 characters in a minute” from 1905.
And a German stamp from 1953 celebrating the telex.
Image by Henri Becquerel, created by placing radioactive materials on a photographic plate, 1903. Via Wikipedia user Thangalin.
“Apache Gaun” by Edward Curtis, 1906 (via Northwestern University Library)
Early kite-based camera drone by George R Lawrence, flown over San Francisco and NYC in 1908.
Via: Dr Simon Baker, HT FastCo
Cover from the “Style Information Sheets, Adding and Listing Machines” by the Burroughts Adding Machine Company (1908).
Via: Charles Babbage Institute (lots more where this came from!)
