In 1926 Fritz Kahn created his famous “Mensch als Industriepalast,” a fascinating, modernist depiction of the human being as a chemical factory, staffed with industrious little workers, replete with control centers, machines, conduits, communication wires (see the copy at the NLM). In an impressive display plagiarism, Dr. Jayne’s almanac for 1939 included a strikingly similar […]
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