<p>The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus” is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings.</p> <p>The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext.</p> <p>New visual connections and narrative layers emerge through the interweaving of the story with the depiction of technical developments.</p>