Fritz Kahn`s body machines – Awesome man-machine analogies

Dr. Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) was a world-famous popular science writer who illustrated the form and function of the human body with spectacular, modern man-machine analogies.

Fritz Kahn’s books and illustrations explored the inner machinery of the human body, using metaphors of modern industrial life. Kahn turned the brain into a complex factory with light projectors, conveyor belts, secretaries and cinema screens; he showed the journeys of blood cells as locomotives encircling the globe; and he compared bones to modern building materials such as reinforced concrete.

A video animation made by Henning Lederer