On Apr 20, 6:46�pm, Larry wrote:
AF6AY wrote in news:1177108945.448470.193430
@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

There is a lesser-known, harder-to-find overall history of
* *electronics (includes radio) published by McGraw-Hill's bi-
* *weekly subscription periodical Electronics, 17 April 1980,
* *a commemorative Fiftieth Anniversary edition (over 900 pp)
* *which takes an all-inclusive overview of all electronics from
* *before the first demonstration of radio in 1896 up to 1980.

Keep a sharp eye out on newsgroup alt.binaries.e-book.technical for these
kinds of books, mostly in pdf format. *It is an amazing source of ebooks
on all kinds of neat subjects.

Thanks for the tip.

As a paid subscriber to McGraw-Hill's Electronics, I have
my own copy. I've seen it in a couple of technical libraries
but do not expect anyone to do an Acrobat trick of scanning
all those pages. I mentioned it as an overview of the entire
electronics field and think it did its job very well.

I neglected to mention Aitkins previous history, "The
Syntony of Spark." While it was good, it neglected to
cover as much of the politics of the 1920s in regards to
radio in general...in my opinion, at least.

73, Len AF6AY