Georgia Tech Rare Book Spotlight: Archives Open House

Please join the Georgia Tech Library in the Archives Reading Room Wednesday, Aug. 6 from noon to 2 p.m. for an open house to view a selection of the newest acquisitions in rare books, science fiction, and university archives from the Library’s Archives and Special Collections department.

Selections include:

• Illustrated books from the “Theatre of Machines” genre highlighting late-Renaissance and early modern European mechanical engineering;
• Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in 1769;
• Early modern books on cryptography with working ciphers;
• An 1899 first American edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a 20th century edition illustrated by Edward Gorey;
• Science fiction magazines and fan materials related to Star Trek and Dungeons and Dragons; and
• Complete anthologies of EC Comics Weird Science and Vault of Horror.

Visit the Archives and Special Collections website to learn more about our collections or contact us with additional questions.

Visitors should leave food and drink behind and adhere to reading room use policies.