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Records and rechecks, run 3, 2026-10-04

All work in Chrome (one new tab, closed at the end) unless stated. Fallback tool (WebFetch) used only where Chrome could not read a page.

1. ETH Library swisscovery (new site): Wiegner's dissertation [positive]

https://eth.swisscovery.slsp.ch (query creator,contains,Wiegner Alfred; 21 results). The ETH Research Collection discover URL tried first returned 404; Google "Wiegner, Alfred" Diss. ETH hung. - Dissertation: "Über das Verhalten von Carbiden und Siliciden in Legierungen bei der Zersetzung durch Säuren" (on the behaviour of carbides and silicides in alloys when decomposed by acids), Wiegner, Alfred; examiners Emil Bosshard and William D. Treadwell; open access, two versions [web]. Year not shown in the result row; the ETH doctoral dossier is dated 1930. - Diploma work (1929, under Prof. Fierz): preparation of amino-phenyl-oxamic acids and Naphthogen-blue dyes. - Later writings: "Les difficultés dans l'industrie textile et leurs causes" (Revue économique franco-suisse, 1952); "Le coton, ce grand seigneur" (Gallus-Stadt, 1958); "Begegnung mit Eugen Böhler" (1963). Archive items: ETH matriculation 1924-29, doctoral dossier 1930, biographical dossier (d. 1973). Bearing (claim 8; open question 3, Dipol A.-G.): Dipol's signing chemist was trained in analytical and metallurgical chemistry and dye chemistry, not dielectrics or radio; he later made his career in the textile trade. Nothing in his record so far is on high frequency. This weighs a little against Dipol's laboratory having been a dielectric-research centre staffed by specialists, and for a small applied-chemistry operation; it does not decide what was done there.

2. University of Akron, B. F. Goodrich Company Records (OhAkUAS0037) [blocked / partial]

  • OhioLINK EAD viewer (https://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhAkUAS0037.xml): blank in Chrome; WebFetch got "Request Rejected" (a firewall block).
  • Google "B.F. Goodrich" records University of Akron archival services finding aid series "Research Center" and "B.F. Goodrich Company Records" 1868-1990 box list: the UAkron LibGuide lists "research center reports and other files"; a 2017 ProQuest thesis cites "Box 85, Series VII: Research and Development, B.F. Goodrich Company Records 1868-1990" [web].
  • Next (owner): ask Archival Services for Series VII (Research and Development) folders on electronic/dielectric vulcanisation 1944-50 and the January 1945 patent purchase and Industry Inventions, Inc.

3. Allied technical-intelligence reports [partial]

Google: BIOS OR FIAT OR CIOS "final report" "high frequency heating" German 1946. - BIOS Final Report No. 866, Items 1, 7 and 9, "High Frequency Heating" exists (AbeBooks listings) [web]; no online copy found. - BIOS Final Report No. 867 (earlytelevision.org PDF, fetched by WebFetch and OCR'd, first pages only) is "Television. Development and Application in Germany" (same items 1, 7, 9): not relevant; not kept. - Next (owner): BIOS 866 from the Imperial War Museum, the British Library or the Science Museum Library; check its list of firms and persons visited for Kassner, Esau (Jena), Schliephake or any dipolar-resonance work.

4. US Proclaimed List / British Statutory List for General Infra [negative so far]

  • Google: "General Infra" Chur "Proclaimed List" OR "Statutory List" OR "black list" 1944 OR 1945 OR 1946 (only an irrelevant Ontario law text).
  • HathiTrust full text: "General Infra" (full-view only: one irrelevant 1855 hit) and "General Infra" Chur (all items: one irrelevant 1995 hit). The HathiTrust consent banner was left untouched.
  • e-newspaperarchives.ch: "General Infra": 1 hit, NZZ advertisement 1997 (irrelevant).
  • Not tried: the Federal Register supplements directly (govinfo or Internet Archive by date), the London Gazette. The BAR file E2001E#1968/78#9311* remains the best route.

5. Rechecks of positive sites

  • e-newspaperarchives.ch (Cloudflare passed by itself): Kassner Ultrakurzwellen 0; "General Infra" 1 irrelevant; Phonovision 6 hits, none Kassner's (Der Bund 12 Oct 1940 is an American home sound-film device called "Phonovision"; 1951, 1967, 1970, 1974 items are later video-telephone or video-disc uses of the word). No new Kassner content.
  • archives-online.org: Hencke (78 fuzzy hits, first page irrelevant: Henck 1507, etc.); a Kassner re-run via URL did not execute (the site needs the form); not completed.
  • Google Patents: Arnold patent page read (see 2026-10-04-arnold.md); inventor search for Arnold.
  • Internet Archive: Botanical Review 1944 full text re-read for the context of the Ternion citation (see 2026-10-04-related-work.md).
  • DEPATISnet (blocked in run 1): retried, works; see 2026-10-04-depatisnet.md.
  • Espacenet: retried (pn=GB448418A): Cloudflare verification page again = blocked (CAPTCHA). Superseded by DEPATISnet for the GB and FR texts.
  • Not rechecked this run (time spent on priorities 1-3 as directed): USPTO ppubs, SHAB, CAP, CourtListener, BAR, swisscollections, Bodleian, NARA catalog, HathiTrust search-inside for the Oberpfaffenhofen catalogue. They stay "Recheck: yes".

6. Other blocked this run

  • ScienceDirect (Mittler 1976): "Are you a robot?" CAPTCHA = blocked.
  • zoryglaser.com PDFs: Chrome's PDF viewer cannot be read by the extension; fetched by WebFetch instead (worked).