The Apple-1, launched in July 1976, was the computer that helped propel a two-man business operating from a suburban garage into the world's most valuable company a short 35 years later. This month one of the few remaining Apple-1 operating manuals hits the auction block in Boston.
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Best known as Pink Floyd's guitar virtuoso, Dave Gilmour auctioned his guitar collection and gave the proceeds to a good cause. Gilmour's immense contribution to combating climate change, resulted in numerous smashed auction records along the way.
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On Sunday, July 20, 1969, the first thing ever written by a human while on a celestial body that wasn't our own planet Earth was jotted onto a page. That page was within a book known as "The Timeline Book" which is set to be auctioned at Christie's New York later this year.
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Christie's held two science-related auctions last week, and across the two, some quite remarkable scientific artifacts were on offer. Here's our pick of the offerings.
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A rare collection of props, costumes, and other materials from the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet will go on auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles this week. It's part of a larger collection of fantasy of general memorabilia from the estate of collector Wes Shank, who passed away in 2018.
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The nature of rare finds is that they often turn up in the most unlikely places. After all, if they were sitting in obvious places they wouldn't be such rare finds would they? Such is the case with this 1916 rookie card for baseball great Babe Ruth which was recently sold at auction for US$108,378.
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Music lovers in the Soviet Union during the 1950s had to sneak X-ray plates on their turntables if they wanted to listen to tunes from prohibited international musicians. Now a project has etched tracks by modern artists onto X-rays of skulls, skeletons and joints and put them up for auction.
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Paris gave birth to the automotive industry, held the world's first motor show, was the birthplace of motorsport, and now through the annual Retromobile celebration, Paris offers the finest in automobilia available. Here's a sampling of the remarkable objects available this year.
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Michelin has been one of the world's leading tire brands for 120 years, but Michelin's humanization of the brand using Bibendum the Michelin Man is now business school "best practice" and the copy of the original Bibendum poster going to auction in Paris this week could see remarkable prices.
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The motorcycle marketplace is recalibrated each year with the January Las Vegas sales, and this year saw new records and the changing tastes of the buying public. While vintage bikes performed well, the real movers were two-strokes, seventies classics and Japanese motorcycles.
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