The collection was donated by Mark Greenia in 1998.
Access to the collection is unrestricted.
The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Richard Rimbach Collection on Automation (CBI 89), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Richard Rimbach is considered by many to be the "father" of the International Society of Automation (ISA). He served as the first executive director of the ISA. Rimbach published the first issue of Instruments magazine in January 1928, which "gave birth to instrumentation and control as a distinct discipline."
Information taken from www.isa.org, January 2010.
The collection contains documentation on the Instrument Society of America conference and on early automation.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.