Category Archives: Dreaming on Paper

COVER STORY #9: THE SUN ALSO RISES

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Peter Selgin

Published by Scribner’s in 1926, the first edition featured a Hellenistic jacket design illustrated by Cleonike Damianekes. The illustration, printed in a medley of beiges and browns, depicts a loosely-robed, exhausted-looking woman inclined against an even more tired-looking tree, her … Continue reading →

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Papa’s New York: from THE INVENTORS

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Peter Selgin

You’d leave on Friday mornings. The trip took just a little over an hour, but you might as well have been taking off for Pluto or Neptune, it seemed so very far. As your father backed the Simca around the … Continue reading →

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My Father and Mr. Aiken

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Peter Selgin

During that first year at Harvard, my father met a man who, had circumstances been ever-so-slightly different, would have altered the course of his professional life. That someone was an older graduate student named Howard Aiken. Tall and handsome, with piercing, … Continue reading →

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The Story of the Nomoscope

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Peter Selgin

Patent No. 2,646,717: The Nomoscope. “Device for the Identification of Documents or Printed Matter,” aka the dollar bill changing machine.” At dinner parties my inventor papa would quip, “Yes, that’s right, I invented the first machine that gave change for a dollar bill … Continue reading →

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