A scan of the workings of an automaton of a friar, c1550. Possibly circle of Juanelo Turriano (c1500-85), probably Spanish. Courtesy the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
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Make a donationA scan of the workings of an automaton of a friar, c1550. Possibly circle of Juanelo Turriano (c1500-85), probably Spanish. Courtesy the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
The dilution refrigerator for the IBM Q quantum computer, September 2019. Photo by Graham Carlow/IBM
Recursive design: the Chamber Music Hall in Manchester, by Zaha Hadid Architects, which opened in 2009. Photo by View/Getty
Richard Feynman’s high school calculus notebook: ‘That was a way to try to get it into my head this time, instead of forgetting it. So I had learned calculus.’ Courtesy Physics Central/Niels Bohr Library and Archive
‘We know more than we can tell’: Traders at the fishmarket auction in Grimsby, England, once the home of the UK’s largest trawler fishing fleet. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty
A screen shows a demonstration of SenseTime Group Ltd’s SenseVideo pedestrian and vehicle recognition system in Beijing, China, on Friday 15 June 2018. Photo by Bloomberg/Getty Images
Asterion the Minotaur prowls the streets of Toulouse in the show ‘Le Gardien du Temple’ by La Machine street theatre company, France, 4 November 2018. Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Winnie the Pooh by Banksy, displayed at Bonhams’ inaugural US auction of urban art on 24 October 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Tibrina Hobson/WireImage/Getty
An original French billboard poster for Frankenstein by artist Jacques Faria (1931). Public Domain
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