✖ Via s11ver photostream on Flickr: “Machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli, 1588”, from the Science & Technical set.
It’s an illustration of the famous “Bookwheel” invented by Ramelli, sometime considered “an early prototype of hypertext and hence the World Wide Web” (Wikipedia). First published in Ramelli’s The Diverse and Artifactitious Machines of Captain Agostino Ramelli (French and Italian, 1588). Read more about bookwheel machines at the Dead Media Archive and on George Goodall’s blog.
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• Jun 29, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: vintage illustration technology communication Internet book machine
