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Guido Thuernagel’s NVA site (1 Viewer)

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In the past there was an excellent site of Guido Thürnagel that documented in great detail all kind of optics used by the former East German Army: the NVA. I cannot find this site anymore. If I enter the old link of his website I get all kind of not relevant stuff. Anybody who can advise me where to find his site?
 
It appears to be gone, a real loss.
As with the case of Fan Tao, whose Binofan web site had superb summary reviews of many classic binoculars
It seems that the costs of keeping an active web site operational are simply too great for even a dedicated amateur.
Ideally there would a global repository for such work, so that it is not simply lost. However, I've seen no indication that anyone ( possibly Google?) is even considering offering such a repository.
 
jring said:
Hi,

here you are... from 2012, others are available on the timeline at the top:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121004182730/http://home.arcor.de/thuernagel/edf.htm

PS: If links are broken, it helps to copy the link and paste it into the URL field above the timeline and press the Go button.

Joachim
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Thank you, very helpful indeed.

Guido Thuernagel had a lot more data on his web site. It was so intriguing that I was seriously tempted to buy some of the NVA surplus optics during the post reunification fire sales. The stuff was being sold for pennies on the dollar.
In any case, his work was real industrial history. He had most of the material needed for a very useful monograph. It is a loss to the optics community that there is no archive for these documents.
 
etudiant said:
Thank you, very helpful indeed.

Guido Thuernagel had a lot more data on his web site. It was so intriguing that I was seriously tempted to buy some of the NVA surplus optics during the post reunification fire sales. The stuff was being sold for pennies on the dollar.
In any case, his work was real industrial history. He had most of the material needed for a very useful monograph. It is a loss to the optics community that there is no archive for these documents.
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Hi,

sorry, due to the frames I got the wrong link, his whole page should be available in the wayback machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120928080626if_/http://home.arcor.de/thuernagel/katalog.htm

And if a link is broken, right-click it, choose "Copy Link Location" and paste into wayback machine's own address bar above the timeline and press Go.

Joachim
 
jring said:
Hi,

sorry, due to the frames I got the wrong link, his whole page should be available in the wayback machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120928080626if_/http://home.arcor.de/thuernagel/katalog.htm

And if a link is broken, right-click it, choose "Copy Link Location" and paste into wayback machine's own address bar above the timeline and press Go.

Joachim
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Thank you, Joachim, your instructions were just fine.

The item that fascinated me was the UMG-Pi, on a heavy tripod, a really spectacular piece of mechanical and optical engineering.
At one point, the original site had very extensive documentation for this as well as many other instruments. That all went away even before the site went dark. So it may now be beyond the Wayback reach, unfortunately.
 
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