Man as Industrial Palace
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Man as Industrial Palace

    Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
    Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.
    Fritz Kahn
    (1888-1968)

    Kahn?s modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system as "industrial palace," really a chemical plant, was conceived in a period when the German chemical industry was the world?s most advanced.