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[Retrograde]

You don't even need to save the image to your computer, just click & drag any image on a page over to the google image page, and it does the rest.

works great for images that happen to appear elsewhere on the internet...
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/u ... 24x685.jpg
Mr. Grumpy's wallpaper

however, the above vintage post card images don't seem to match up with anything that google is aware of.

[emgcr]

Many thanks all---very helpful. My computer still will not allow me to drop a photo into the the Google Image box (whether I click on it or not) but I can achieve the desired result by clicking on the small camera icon at the right hand end of the same box. Having said that, Google only seems to be able to find any useful information about one in ten times that I have tried. No doubt this facility will improve as the Internet continues with its exponential growth. It is a great and very useful idea.

[Brad]

Came across this today in an industry professional newsletter which had an article on the biggest untrue facts in the profession. Somewhat on and somewhat off topic, but topical!

HEINRICH HERTZ’S BURIAL PLACE
Heinrich Hertz is well known in the history of science and engineering, but his burial place has been wrongly reported.

Hertz was the first to experimentally produce and detect the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell. As a result, in his honor the unit of frequency—cycles per second—is named the hertz. In 1987, IEEE established an award in the field of electromagnetic waves and named it the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal.

Hertz was born in Hamburg in 1857 to a father from a wealthy, educated, and successful family that had converted from Judaism to Lutheranism a generation before. Hertz’s mother was the daughter of a Lutheran minister, so it is no surprise that when he died at the age of 36,* his body was returned to Hamburg and buried in the main Protestant cemetery, Ohlsdorf.

A figure as important as Hertz is of course well represented in online biographies. But when you Google his name you find that almost all sites that mention the disposition of his body claim he was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Hamburg—a cultural impossibility as well as just plain wrong. Several websites, including Wikipedia, do not even mention what happened after his death. Someone must have once posted the idea, and other sites blindly copied it without checking the facts. A trip to the library for an authoritative print biography would not have even been necessary. Clever use of the Web itself would have turned up the Ohlsdorf cemetery’s list of its famous occupants, which includes an entry for “Hertz, Prof. Heinrich Rudolf, 1857–1894.”