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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope you are all well in these challenging times. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m writing with a brief research question: Does anyone know of where I might find visual documentation of Vannevar Bush’s 1930s “rapid selector,” which I don’t think got much beyond prototype stage? A 1949 article by John C. Green, “The Rapid Selector—An Automatic Library,” depicts a version improved and updated by others (that article states “<span class=s1><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>After the war a number of interested persons again </span></span>took up the problem of the Rapid Selector. Among them were Ralph Shaw, Librarian of the Department <span class=s1><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>of Agriculture, and a group of persons who had origi</span></span>nally worked with Dr. Bush, and were now independently organized as Engineering Research Associates, with headquarters in St. Paul). However, I’m wondering if anyone has come across photos, diagrams, etc., from its incarnation at MIT in the 1930s. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any feedback, stay safe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bernard <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Digital Media<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Chair of the UG Assessment Board, Digital Culture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>www.bernardg.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Department of Digital Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>King's College London <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The Strand Building<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Room S3.08<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>WC2R 2LS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Office: +44 (0)20 7848 4750</span>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope you are all well in these challenging times. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m writing with a brief research question: Does anyone know of any visual documentation of Vannevar Bush’s 1930s “rapid selector,” which I don’t think ever got much beyond prototype stage? A 1949 article by John C. Green, “The Rapid Selector—An Automatic Library,” depicts an apparently improved and updated version. However, I’m wondering if anyone has come across photos, diagrams, etc., from its incarnation at MIT in the 1930s. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any feedback, stay well.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>