Rare Books & Ancestral Machines: The Inaugural Exhibition of the Posner Center for Special Collections

Name: Rare Books & Ancestral Machines: The Inaugural Exhibition of the Posner Center for Special Collections
Start: 2026-11-20
End: 2026-11-21
Location: Posner Center

Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2026
Time: All day
Location: Posner Center
Host: Carnegie Mellon University
Details: The Posner Center is a cabinet of rarities and technological marvels: paper-and-string cipher machines, centuries-old books, cogwheel computers and 19th century "digital" images. Part museum and part laboratory, it is a site for discovery, research, and innovation with the materials of the past.Rare Books & Ancestral Machines features more than 30 books and objects from the Posner Center

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