Paul Otlet
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Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet was a Belgian bibliographer, lawyer, and peace activist, and a key figure in documentation science, a precursor to information science.
Otlet in 1937
The Hotel Otlet, Paul Otlet's mansion, designed by Octave van Rysselberghe in 1894
Répertoire Bibliographique Universel
Front page of the book International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet, edited by W. Boyd Rayward
Memex
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A memex is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in wh
Interpretation of the MEMEX at German Museum of Technology
Vannevar Bush
Hypertext Editing System (HES) IBM 2250 Display console – Brown University 1969