Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine

Michael Keeble Buckland

Greenwood Publishing Group, Mar 1, 2006 - Information technology - 380 pages

Contents

• 1 Origins: 1
• Illustration 11 Colonel Grigorii Ignatevich Goldberg: 4
• Illustration 12 Goldbergs family group circa 1900: 5
• 2 University Studies: 9
• Illustration 21 Certificate of nonadmission to the Imperial Technical School Moscow: 10
• Illustration 22 Robert Luther 18681945: 16
• 3 Berlin: 21
• Illustration 31 Moiré effect on portrait of Goldberg with a lathe: 25
• 4 Sophie Posniak: 29
• Illustration 41 Sophie Posniak circa 1907: 30
• Illustration 42 Sophie Posniak and Emanuel Goldberg at the time of their engagement circa 1907: 31
• Illustration 43 Sophie Posniaks bookplate: 34
• Illustration 44 Early bookplate of Emanuel Goldberg: 35
• Illustration 45 Later bookplate of Emanuel Goldberg: 36
• 5 Graphics: 37
• Illustration 51 Academy for Graphic Arts and Bookcraft Leipzig: 41
• Illustration 52 Emanuel and Sophie Goldberg circa 1909: 42
• Illustration 53 Certificate expressing regret that Goldberg was ineligible for an award: 48
• Illustration 54 Wer Ists? Cartoon of Academy instructors: 51
• 6 The Goldberg Wedge: 53
• Illustration 61 A typical Characteristic Curve: 54
• side view: 60
• top view and plot: 61
• Illustration 64 Densograph with angled eyepiece and Zeiss Ikon logo circa 1930: 62
• 7 The Great War: 69
• Illustration 71 Aerodynamic Observation Balloon Drachenballon: 74
• Illustration 72 Ernst Wandersleb 18791963: 75
• 8 Ica and the Kinamo: 81
• Illustration 81 Announcement of Goldbergs appointment at Ica June 1917: 82
• Illustration 82 Selffocusing enlarger by Emanuel Goldberg and Martin Nowicki 1926: 84
• Illustration 83 Goldberg and his staff circa 1920: 85
• Illustration 84 Kinamo N25 movie camera: 87
• Illustration 85 Herbert Goldberg helps Renate look out of the window: 89
• Illustration 86 Handheld filming with the Zeiss Ikon Kinamo: 90
• Illustration 87 Goldberg and Herbert in a tent: 91
• Illustration 88 Goldberg Herbert Renate Sophie and an unidentified youth in Die verzauberten Schuhe: 92
• Illustration 89 Sophie weeping with Renate in Die verzauberten Schuhe: 93
• Illustration 810 Herbert and Goldberg look out from a farm hut: 94
• Illustration 811 Son and father Herbert and Goldberg receive a letter: 95
• Illustration 812 Son and father Herbert and Goldberg enjoy a parcel of candies: 96
• Illustration 813 Students cartoon of Goldberg 1927: 97
• 9 The Goldberg Condition: 99
• 10 Microdots: 105
• Illustration 101 Diagram of Goldbergs method of photographing a negative to produce microphotographs 1917: 107
• Illustration 102 Goldbergs 1925 Microdot: 110
• Illustration 103 Mechanized desktop microfilm reader: 115
• 11 Zeiss Ikon and the Contax: 119
• Illustration 111 Coupled rangefinder for folding camera: 125
• Illustration 112 Contax Model I 1932: 126
• Illustration 113 Contax Model II 1934: 127
• Illustration 114 When the Professor travels Cartoon: 130
• 12 Television: 133
• Illustration 121 Cross Section of a Nipkow disk: 135
• Illustration 122 Fernseh AGs Intermediatefilm Mobile Television Camera: 138
• 13 The 1931 Congress: 141
• Illustration 131 Sensitometria Diabolica or Punch on the Standards Committee: 145
• 14 The Statistical Machine: 147
• Illustration 141 Alexander Rudolphs Continuous Revolving File and Index 1892: 149
• Illustration 142 Brooks B Hardings Cataloguing Device 1932: 150
• Illustration 143 Georges Sebilles Apparatus for Reading Books and the Like 1932: 151
• Illustration 144 The Statistical Machines sensing mechanism: 155
• Illustration 145 Microfilmed documents with associated index codes: 156
• Illustration 146 Diagram of the Statistical Machine showing the sensing mechanism and projection of the image of a document: 157
• Illustration 147 Diagram of the Statistical Machine from USPatent 1838389: 159
• Illustration 149 Diagram of the Statistical Machine showing use of light bulbs: 160
• 15 Ludwig Killinger and Mutschmann: 165
• Illustration 151 Goldbergs forced letter of resignation April 4 1933: 173
• 16 Paris: 179
• Illustration 161 Copying camera: 184
• Illustration 162 Photographic copying apparatus: 185
• 17 Palestine: 189
• Illustration 171 Goldberg instructs his staff in the Laboratory: 195
• Illustration 172 Goldberg refractometer: 198
• Illustration 173 Goldberg at his desk with boiler refractometer: 199
• 18 Military Needs: 207
• Illustration 181 Aerial photo rectifier built during World War II: 210
• 19 The Microfilm Rapid Selector: 217
• Illustration 191 Diagram for conducting searches remotely by telephone: 226
• 20 Finale: 229
• Illustration 201 Emanuel Goldberg in the 1960s: 235
• 21 After Goldberg: 237
• 22 Goldberg in Retrospect: 249
• N 1 Trigonometry of the Gamma: 295

Bibliographic information

• Title: Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine; New directions in information management
• Author: Michael Keeble Buckland
• Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006
• ISBN: 0897899784, 9780897899789
• Length: 380 pages