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Tesla these days is known as a brand of EV that is storming the world, but 120 years ago, Nikola Tesla was one of the most important innovators on the planet. Evidence of the gravitas of the Tesla name was on full display at an auction at Remarkable Ra… Continue reading Four-page autograph Nikola Tesla letter fetches $340,000 at auction
It would be reasonable to expect that it might be a slow year at auction for science, technology and science-fiction, but 2021 is on track for a record. So far this year we have seen Isaac Newton’s revisions to Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica sell in London for £1,702,500 (about US$2,350,000), an Albert Einstein letter with his famous E=mc2 equation in his handwriting sell for $1,243,707, a copy of Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian fetch $950,000, a Steve Jobs-signed Apple II Manual sell for $787,484 and an Apollo Guidance Computer fetch $746,000 … and the next month promises as much again.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Sotheby’s, Christie’s, RR Auction, Isaac Newton, Heritage Auctions, Charles Darwin
Continue reading Science and sci-fi memorabilia booming at auction
Albert Einstein is the world’s most recognizable, best known and universally loved scientist. He embodies the essence of genius and although he passed away 66 years ago, he is still among the top earning dead celebrities, right up there with the world’s best known actors and rock stars who died with traditional digital royalties. He also established the world’s best known formula: E= mc2. So when a handwritten letter appeared at auction in which Einstein wrote the famous formula in his own hand, it was logical that it should sell for a grand amount. It did, becoming the fourth Einstein letter to sell for more than $1.0 million.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: RR Auction, Albert Einstein
Continue reading Einstein’s handwritten “E= mc2” letter sells for $1.24 million
A very rare piece of computer history is up for grabs at RR Auctions. The early three-button “X-Y” mouse, designed by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart, is the direct ancestor of today’s ubiquitous computer mouse and was made famous when it was first … Continue reading Ground-breaking Engelbart 3-button computer mouse goes to auction
A rare piece of cyber history that helped usher in the modern computer age is going up for sale as RR Auction’s Steve Jobs + Apple Auction offers up a functioning Apple-1 computer from the 1970s, complete with its original box signed by Apple-1 designe… Continue reading Ulta-rare working Apple-1 computer with box going to auction
The Apple-1 computer, launched in July 1976, wasn’t the first personal computer per se, but to many, it may as well be. After all, this is the computer that helped propel a two-man business operating from a suburban garage into the world’s mo… Continue reading Rare original 1976 Apple-1 operation manual up for auction