12 series
Series
Posters that belong together, to hang side by side. Each series has a wall planner: choose a print format, a layout and frames, and it draws the wall to scale, with every size and the height to hang it at.
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5 posters · 2008 to 2020
Bitcoin, piece by piece
The standard that specifies SHA-256, the hash function of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper of 31 October 2008 and the first block, mined on 3 January 2009, followed by two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals: BIP 39 (2013) for recovery words and BIP 340 (2020) for Schnorr signatures.
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4 posters · 1905
1905, the miraculous year
Four papers that Albert Einstein published in the Annalen der Physik in 1905: on light quanta and the photoelectric effect, on Brownian motion, on the electrodynamics of moving bodies, and on the equivalence of mass and energy.
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5 posters · 1215 to 1791
Declarations
Five charters of rights, from Magna Carta, granted at Runnymede in June 1215, to the United States Declaration of Independence (1776), the French Declaration of 1789, Olympe de Gouges’s Declaration of the rights of woman (1791) and the Bill of Rights, ratified on December 15, 1791.
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5 posters · 1969 to 1991
The origins of the Internet
From RFC 1, dated 7 April 1969, to Tim Berners-Lee’s announcement of the WorldWideWeb project on 6 August 1991, by way of ASCII for the ARPA network (1969) and the headers of IP and TCP, specified in September 1981.
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5 posters · 1990 to 2011
The April Fools’ RFCs
Five Requests for Comments published on the first of April between 1990 and 2011: IP datagrams carried by birds, with quality of service and then over IPv6, a protocol for coffee pots, and one for infinite monkeys at typewriters.
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6 posters · 1876 to 1970
Patents that changed the world
Six United States patents, from Bell’s telephone (1876) and Edison’s electric lamp (1880) to the Wrights’ flying machine (1906), the point-contact transistor (1950), Kilby’s integrated circuit (1964) and Engelbart’s mouse (1970).
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5 posters · 1610 to 1977
Looking up
Galileo’s observations of the Moon (1610), Newton’s laws of motion (1687), Messier’s catalogue of nebulae and star clusters (1781), Hubble’s relation between distance and velocity (1929) and the cover of the record carried by the two Voyager probes (1977).
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4 posters · 1786 to 1869
The first data visualizations
Four charts and maps drawn between 1786 and 1869: William Playfair’s trade charts, John Snow’s map of the Broad Street cholera deaths (1854), Florence Nightingale’s diagram of the causes of mortality in the army (1858) and Charles Joseph Minard’s map of the French army in Russia in 1812 and 1813.
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4 posters · 1798 to 1929
Life
Jenner on vaccination against smallpox (1798), Darwin and Wallace on natural selection, read at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858, Mendel on the crosses of garden peas (1866) and Fleming on penicillin (1929).
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5 posters · 1703 to 1970
From binary to the mouse
Leibniz’s binary arithmetic (1703), Ada Lovelace’s Note G on the Analytical Engine (1843), Hollerith’s patent for tabulating census data on punched paper (1889), the transistor (1950) and Engelbart’s mouse (1970).
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5 posters · 1985 to 2007
Free software and ways of working
Richard Stallman’s GNU Manifesto (1985), the Free Software Definition, the Open Source Definition, the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (2001) and Tim Peters’s Zen of Python (2004).
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6 posters · c. 300 BC to 1900
Mathematics
Six texts from Euclid’s Elements (c. 300 BC) to Hilbert’s 23 problems (1900), by way of Fermat’s marginal note, Euler on the bridges of Königsberg (1736), Galois’s letter of 29 May 1832 and Riemann on the number of primes (1859).
