School of Information
Previously School of Library & Information Studies
Michael Buckland.
Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge
Machine - Additions.
Additional notes relating to the biography:
Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention, and
Political Forces, by Michael Buckland. (Libraries Unlimited, 2006). See
http://lu.com/showbook.cfm?isbn=0313313326.
Additions by page number.
- 108: April 1928: "Aman-Ulla" is Amanullah Khan (1892 - 1960),
ruler of Afghanistan
from 1919 to 1929, who visited Europe in 1927.
- 133-138, 238-240: For Siegmund Loewe, the Loewe company, and Fernseh AG, see also the thorough
new biography by Kilian J. L. Steiner: Ortempfanger, Volksfernseher und Optaphon:
Die Entwicklung der deutschen Radio- und Fernsehindustrie und das Unternehmen
Loewe, 1923-1962. Essen: Klartext, 2005. ISBN 3-89861-492-1.
- 165-178: Ludwig Lewisohn, Breathe Upon These (Bobbs-Merrill, 1944),
a novel, has a fictionalized account of the Nazi treatment of Goldberg, pp 85-89:
"... Goldberger, the greatest man in our speciality in the whole world."
- 195, Fig 17.1: The equipment is a Chaublin milling machine
and the unidentified man, standing, with glasses is Bernd Lotz.
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