C. P. Goerz: The Company History, Now in Full
The site's article on C. P. Goerz has been rewritten from the ground up into a full company history, from the 1886 protractor business to the 1926 Zeiss Ikon merger and beyond.
The old entry on Goerz covered the essentials and not much more. The new one runs the whole arc: Carl Paul Goerz the travelling salesman who never computed a lens in his life, and Emil von Höegh, the designer Zeiss turned away — whose rejected drawings became the Dagor and sold thirty thousand units in four years.
From there the story goes where the firm went: Anschütz focal-plane shutters, the gloriously odd Hypergon with its air-driven star diaphragm, branches in Paris, New York, St Petersburg, Riga and Vienna, and the military department that made Goerz the world's largest supplier of army optics — and then, after Versailles, nearly killed it. The 1926 merger into Zeiss Ikon saved the company from bankruptcy on the condition that it stop being itself.
There are also the afterlives: Artars made in New York into the 1970s, the Minicord in Vienna, and Contax assembly lines shipped from Saalfeld to Kyiv in 1947.
The updated company history is here