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References

• https://www.wikidata.org the main wikidata platform

Terminology

• https://www.oed.com The historical English Oxford dictionary (EN)
• https://www.etymonline.com Online Etymology Dictionary (EN)
• https://etymologie.nl Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands (NL)
• https://etymologiebank.nl etymologiebank.nl (NL)

ISBN

• https://isbnsearch.org looking up books based on their ISBN or keywords

Books

• https://web.archive.org/ contains milions of (scanned) books with proper referencing. You can download in different formats or link to a viewer.
• https://worldcat.org/ to search information about books

• https://libris.kb.se/

Newspapers and magazines

• https://news.google.com/newspapers
• https://www.worldradiohistory.com a big collection of radio and audio magazines

Manuals

• https://www.manualslib.com a large collection of manuals, including technical theatre manuals.
• https://lightspares.com a large collection of manuals, spec sheets, blow-up drawings, ... from a spare parts sales company.
• https://www.hifiengine.com sound equipment manuals
• https://www.opweb.de/ sound equipment and measuring tools
• https://archives.doctsf.com/documents/ sound equipment

Logos

• https://www.designretter.de Logos from german lighting manufacturers
• https://vintageinfo.be/lighting-manufacturers-logos-labels-a/ Logos from different manufacturers (house, industrial as well as theatre)

Websites

• https://web.archive.org/ The wayback machine gives you the opportunity to look at an existing or disapeared website and go back in time to see sprevious versions of the site and recover old material. (You can add the tool also to your browser.)

Visual information

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (Wiki commons, a large collection of open source pictures and videos)

• https://onb.digital/ (Austria)
• https://balat.kikirpa.be (Belgium)
• Beeldbank Vlaanderen erfgoed (Belgium)

• https://www.europeana.eu

Media types

• https://obsoletemedia.org/ (all kind of Audio, video en data media.)

Audio

• https://www.soundsofchanges.eu/sound/1920s-stage-wind-machine/ (sounds)

Patents

• https://patents.google.com a Google search engine for patents
• https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/ free access to over 140 million patent documents
• https://data.inpi.fr French patent database connected to le Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle

Telephone numbers

• Berlin
  • Die Berliner Telefonbücher von 1881 bis 1902 https://historische-telefonbuecher.de/
  • Telephone Directories Berlin | Names | 1908-1953 https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/cms/145/
  • Telephone Directories Berlin West | Namen | 1954-1991 https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/cms/146/