1950 · Relay-Memory Maze Solver · Work 1087 of 1,871
The living room of a small house in New Jersey on an autumn evening, a standard lamp with a cream shade, on a patterned wool rug a flat square box with dark reddish-brown wooden sides and a matt silver aluminium top, on it a maze of low bright aluminium walls between small posts, five cells by five, in one cell a small black wooden mouse with copper wire whiskers, in another a round brass disc, one side panel opened to show rows of small telephone relays with silver contact springs and coloured wires, two slender hands in cardigan sleeves holding a soldering iron at the relays, an opened toolbox beside.