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Patented a photoelectric statistical machine that compared a search plate with recorded indications and activated a recorder when the patterns matched.
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The record is Goldberg’s U.S. patent 1,838,389, filed in 1928 and issued in 1931. German priority, the demonstrated Zeiss Ikon apparatus, later descriptions, Bush’s memex and modern search engines remain distinct; patent claims are not evidence of universal retrieval capability.
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- Goldberg, Statistical Machine, US 1,838,389
- Buckland, Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, and Vannevar Bush’s Memex
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Emanuel Goldberg
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Patented a photoelectric statistical machine that compared a search plate with recorded indications and activated a recorder when the patterns matched.
Scientific scope
The record is Goldberg’s U.S. patent 1,838,389, filed in 1928 and issued in 1931. German priority, the demonstrated Zeiss Ikon apparatus, later descriptions, Bush’s memex and modern search engines remain distinct; patent claims are not evidence of universal retrieval capability.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Emanuel Goldberg
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.