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VISIT MY SHOP FOR LOTS OF COOL THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD BUY
FROM AN AUTHOR-TYPE PERSON, INCLUDING PERIODIC TABLE QUILTS, CARD DECKS, IPAD
APPS AND EVEN BOOKS! 

Hi there, you have arrived at the home page of Theodore Gray, BAFTA and
IgNobel winning author of The Elements, A Visual Exploration (and several other
books you should read), Founder of Touchpress (an App publishing company),
stitchcoder at PaleGray Labs (an embroidery automation company / art project),
and co-founder of Wolfram Research, Inc (makers of Mathematica and
Wolfram|Alpha).

My Engines book is now available! It’s the second in my series of books about
mechanical things that started with How Things Work and will continue with a
book about tools in 2023.

If you’re a chemistry fan, don’t worry, all my chemistry-related books are still
available, and I still love them just as much. You can get a gift-wrapped
complete trilogy with copies of The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions all
packed up in periodic table wrapping and shipped directly to your favorite
science fan. And there are even new toddler board books (two of them!), note
cards, calendars, and other such products available either from this website or
from your favorite online or bricks-and-mortar bookseller.

Also available now, 8-foot-wide periodic table quilts, and Molecule Quilts, very
reasonably priced!



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I wear several professional hats, and there are links below to the websites that
represent each of them. I have one blog for general things and a stitchblog to
cover things related to quilting and embroidery.

My newest endeavor is making (and selling) what I call "Mechanical GIFs". These
are small laser-cut acrylic models of mechanical devices, designed to have the
same sort of explanatory power as the animated gifs you often see on the
internet. They are highly simplified, stylized versions of the devices,
flattened and made, as I like to say, transparently obvious. Check out
mechanicalgifs.com for more about this enterprise.

My most elaborate personal obsession has resulted in a website
(periodictable.com), the books (The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions) with
about a million and a half copies in print and millions more in App form, a
Popular Science magazine column that ran for ten years, and numerous spinoff
products including posters, card decks, puzzles, and so on. All of which started
from a misunderstanding. It's even led to a decades-long collaboration with Max
Whitby producing beautiful periodic table museum displays.

UrbanaLaser.com is an offshoot of my work on mechanicalgifs.com. Under the
Urbana Laser umbrella we offer laser cutting services to the local
(Urbana-Champaign, Illinois) community using our large-format 130W, 51" x 35"
working area CO2 laser cutter.

My most difficult to understand project is PaleGray Labs, a collaboration with
the artist and film maker Nina Paley. Together we create embroidered and quilted
movies using techniques far beyond the usual.

Read my Stitchblog, or try our live Stitchcam, a webcam pointed at our quilting
robot.

In 2010, responding to the success of The Elements on the iPad, my partners Max
Whitby, John Cromie and I decided to form Touchpress, which was for a time the
leading super-premium App producer, makers of, for example, Disney Animated
(2013 Apple iPad App of the Year, and winner of the 2014 BAFTA Children's
Interactive award) which I also authored. (The company is now an imprint of the
app publisher StoryToys.)

Maribel’s Masks was our response to the great virus of 2020. Maribel started
making masks, and together we made it into a business which made the finest
cloth masks available anywhere, with hundreds of options including straw holes
and silk liners. But not anymore.

My first real job came from co-founding, with Stephen Wolfram and a few others,
the technical computing company Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica and
Wolfram|Alpha. I wrote the Notebook user interface for Mathematica and led the
user interface group for over 20 years. (But you can tell from the name of the
company who the principal founder was!)


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Other Theo Grays
If you're looking for the Theo Gray who is a web designer in the UK, go to
theogray.com. If you're looking for one of the other Theo/Theodore Grays in the
world, try a Facebook search for everyone named Theo Gray. Oh, and if you find
the one who keeps getting arrested for petty theft, please tell him to stop, it
messes up my google news feed. And if you're the one who's in trouble for shady
lobster fishing, I have to hand it to you, that's a unique way to besmirch our
shared reputation. Keep up the good work, but maybe get a license next time?