Every 15 minutes, for nearly a year, 500 men, women, and children rose majestically into “the egg,” Eero Saarinen’s idiosyncratic theater at the 1964 World’s Fair. It was very likely their first introduction to computer logic. Computing was not new, but for the general public, IBM’s iconic pavilion was a high profile coming out party. “Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York” draws on images, artifacts, interactives, and oral histories to look back at local innovations that were key to computer development, from vacuum tubes and punched cards to transistors. New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, 170 Central Park W. at W. 77th St. Nov. 13-Apr. 17, 2016: Tue.-Thu., Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Information at NYHistory.org.
