The Works Of Fritz Kahn

Above here is an animation by Hennin Lederer, clearly showing the mechanical appurtenance of the human body.....

You can see how the head's been divided into several areas....each compartment has its own function.....like will, reason, acoustics, vision, power station(transmitting operating power to the rest of the body).

The respiratory process and the Cardiac processes are seen in the next part.

The digestive process is shown next in a very riveting manner.......

1. The food is first chewed and it is treated by the enzyme Amylase.

2. It then proceeds to the stomach via oesophagus where it is showered by the enzymes Pepsin and Rennin.

3. Then to pancreas and then to the Intestines.

It all reminds or brings up a picture of the industries and their working during the 19th century.

That the whole job is manual......whatever be the work but behind the curtain there's always a man. 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.


And here's the original poster.....(click on the image for magnification)

A video of this image at  Man as an Industrial Palace on YouTube

For the meanings of the German terms visit German Terms (Further Reading section)

Fritz Kahn. Admired, displaced, forgotten – and rediscovered

Surfing through the web.....I found about a very interesting person named FRITZ KAHN.

Seems like this man, a visionary, looked at the human body from an altogether different perspective...

Often we refer our body as a machine, but this man visualised it as a machine.....impeccably illustrating the paraphernalia of the body in his book “Der Mensch als Industriepalast” (Man as Industrial Palace)" he efficiently captured all the basic functions of our body in robust sketches not forgetting even the slightest event during the whole process.