Sotheby's - History of Science & Technology
Tue, Jul 01
|Sotheby's New York City
Experience innovation through time at Sotheby’s History of Science & Technology Auction on July 1, 2025, headlined by a fully operational Apple-1 computer.
Time & Location
Jul 01, 2025, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Sotheby's New York City, 1334 York Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA
About the event
On July 1, 2025, Sotheby’s New York presents the History of Science & Technology Auction—a celebration of humanity’s most groundbreaking ideas and the artifacts that brought them to life.
Leading this year’s event is one of the finest fully operational Apple-1 computers ever offered at auction, a rare piece of tech history that revolutionized the digital age. The sale also features an exceptional range of items across cryptography, early computing, and artificial intelligence—including:
Autograph notebook from Seymour Cray, the father of supercomputing
Signed photographs of Albert Einstein from his only trip to East Asia
Historic cryptography machines and pioneering computer hardware
AARON’s 1984 AI-generated artwork, a milestone from the first AI artist