# Verification Report

Source checked: `GOLDOWSKI-BlackMountainCollege.pdf`, PDF pages 9–16 inclusive.

## Page Checklist

- [x] Original page 1 (PDF page 9): Visually checked title, author line, epigraph, ellipsis, and footnote marker 1. Opening: `HIGH SPEED COMPUTING MACHINES`. Closing: `information ...1`. No second-pass textual correction.
- [x] Original page 2 (PDF page 10): Visually checked all paragraphs, numbered points 1 and 2, quotation marks, `XXth century`, `XIXth century`, and italic *discontinuity*. Opening: `The material world around us undergoes continual changes.` Closing: `this new “commodity.”` No second-pass correction.
- [x] Original page 3 (PDF page 11): Visually checked section headings 1 and 2, technical terms, dash punctuation, and the page-ending split before `servo-mechanisms`. Opening: `1. THE PURPOSE OF MACHINES AND THEIR EFFECT ON SOCIETY.` Closing phrase: `As long as the functioning of servo-`. No second-pass correction.
- [x] Original page 4 (PDF page 12): Visually checked directly from the scan because the embedded OCR is Cyrillic-like gibberish. Checked the tea-kettle example, Wiener quotation, `feed-back`, `resumé`, punched-tape passage, page-ending split in `elementary`, and the combined `1 & 2` footnote. Opening continuation: `mechanisms necessitated the intervention of men`. Closing phrase: `break it up into its ele-`. Second-pass correction: replaced two duplicated citation notes with the single combined note printed for markers 1 and 2.
- [x] Original page 5 (PDF page 13): Visually checked the continuation `mentary`, calculations, section heading 3, `re-channelling` versus `rechanneling`, and `Chess playing machines.` Opening continuation: `mentary parts, operation which will then allow it to be solved.` Closing: `It was said`. No second-pass correction.
- [x] Original page 6 (PDF page 14): Visually checked chess-machine and turtle passages, numbered subheading 2, apparent errors `come` and `pecularities`, compounds, and the page-ending split in `remains`. Opening continuation: `that “it played quite adequately but lacked elegance.”` Closing phrase: `the general line of drive re-`. No second-pass correction.
- [x] Original page 7 (PDF page 15): Visually checked the continuation `mains`, all paragraphs, French accents, italics in *“machine à gouverner”* and *“machine à penser”*, `would chose`, `Conclusion`, and the page boundary after `historian,`. Opening continuation: `mains the same—the drive for food or source of strength.` Closing: `The fate of the economist, historian,`. No second-pass correction.
- [x] Original page 8 (PDF page 16): Visually checked all concluding paragraphs and closing punctuation. Opening continuation: `or social scientist is no better`. Closing: `by the metabolism of thy brain shalt thou live.”` No second-pass correction.

## Artifact Check

- [x] Names and technical terms checked.
- [x] Quotation marks and apostrophes checked.
- [x] Italics checked.
- [x] Numbered lists and headings checked.
- [x] Footnote markers and joint citation checked.
- [x] Wrap-only and compound hyphenation checked.
- [x] Accented French phrases checked.
- [x] Common OCR confusions and Cyrillic substitutions checked.
- [x] Opening and closing words of every page checked for omissions.

No unresolved readings remain.