FA: classic Electrical Engineering texts
 

Hi all,

Hope you'll excuse this FA announcement in sci.electronics.design...I
normally avoid such things, but thought that these classic books might
be of special interest to someone here.

It's a set of three texts covering ELECTRICAL (as opposed to
electronic) engineering: Carl Edward Magnusson, "Direct Currents,"
"Alternating Currents," and "Electric Transients." These are from
1929, 1931 and 1926 respectively. More details at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll... STRK:MESE:IT
and of course I'd be happy to answer questions by email.

Cheers,
Tom

Tom Bruhns says...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll... STRK:MESE:IT

No need for such a long URL. This works fine:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6911709550

Tom Bruhns wrote:
Hi all,

Hope you'll excuse this FA announcement in sci.electronics.design...I
normally avoid such things, but thought that these classic books might
be of special interest to someone here.

It's a set of three texts covering ELECTRICAL (as opposed to
electronic) engineering: Carl Edward Magnusson, "Direct Currents,"
"Alternating Currents," and "Electric Transients." These are from
1929, 1931 and 1926 respectively. More details at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll... STRK:MESE:IT
and of course I'd be happy to answer questions by email.

Cheers,
Tom

I can't believe Hill topped out at $20- what a skin-flint!

Fred Bloggs says...

I can't believe Hill topped out at $20- what a skin-flint!

Grasshopper, you fail to grasp the Tau of eBay bidding. :) One good
strategy is to bid a small amount early and a large amount at the
last moment. The small amount is in case you and another bidder
bid the same amount - in that case whoever bid first wins no matter
how small the initial bid. The large amount at the last moment
hides your interest from the observer and allows you to do a search
for similar items at the penultimate moment. If Hill is an experienced
eBay buyer you will not know his final bid until the auction closes.


--
Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager for hire.
Remember Doc Brown from the _Back to the Future_ movies? Do you
have an "impossible" engineering project that only someone like
Doc Brown can solve? My resume is at http://www.guymacon.com/

Fred Bloggs wrote...

Tom Bruhns wrote:

Hope you'll excuse this FA announcement in sci.electronics.design...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6911709550

I can't believe Hill topped out at $20- what a skin-flint!

I'm waiting for some of Tom's better books to appear.

Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dot-org for now)

On 10 Jul 2004 08:43:40 -0700, Winfield Hill
wrote:

Fred Bloggs wrote...

Tom Bruhns wrote:

Hope you'll excuse this FA announcement in sci.electronics.design...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6911709550

I can't believe Hill topped out at $20- what a skin-flint!

I'm waiting for some of Tom's better books to appear.


Too late: he already gave the best ones to me.

John

John Larkin wrote...

Winfield Hill wrote:

Fred Bloggs wrote...

Tom Bruhns wrote:

Hope you'll excuse this FA announcement in sci.electronics.design...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6911709550

I can't believe Hill topped out at $20- what a skin-flint!

I'm waiting for some of Tom's better books to appear.

Too late: he already gave the best ones to me.

Oh. Bummer. Well, I got his old RF Design magazines. :)

Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dot-org for now)

On 10 Jul 2004 12:49:07 -0700, Winfield Hill
wrote:


I'm waiting for some of Tom's better books to appear.

Too late: he already gave the best ones to me.

Oh. Bummer. Well, I got his old RF Design magazines. :)

Thanks,
- Win


I can let you have an old copy of AoE. Not a bad book at all.

John

John Larkin wrote...

I can let you have an old copy of AoE. Not a bad book at all.

Hah! If you truly have a spare copy, I'll take it. I often
get requests from deserving young folks for free copies.

Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dot-org for now)

On 10 Jul 2004 17:39:44 -0700, Winfield Hill
wrote:

John Larkin wrote...

I can let you have an old copy of AoE. Not a bad book at all.

Hah! If you truly have a spare copy, I'll take it. I often
get requests from deserving young folks for free copies.

Thanks,
- Win


I'll check the inventory. I give a copy to every intern if s/he
doesn't have it already... 8 or 9 so far.

John

Tom Bruhns wrote:
Hi all,

Hope you'll excuse this FA announcement in sci.electronics.design...I
normally avoid such things, but thought that these classic books might
be of special interest to someone here.

It's a set of three texts covering ELECTRICAL (as opposed to
electronic) engineering: Carl Edward Magnusson, "Direct Currents,"
"Alternating Currents," and "Electric Transients." These are from
1929, 1931 and 1926 respectively. More details at

so, are you retiring?

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:21:30 GMT, Roy McCammon wrote:

Tom Bruhns wrote:
Hi all,

Hope you'll excuse this FA announcement in sci.electronics.design...I
normally avoid such things, but thought that these classic books might
be of special interest to someone here.

It's a set of three texts covering ELECTRICAL (as opposed to
electronic) engineering: Carl Edward Magnusson, "Direct Currents,"
"Alternating Currents," and "Electric Transients." These are from
1929, 1931 and 1926 respectively. More details at

so, are you retiring?

Maybe he's just tiring. Speaking for myself, once is enough. I have no
intention of doing it twice.

-- Mike --

Roy McCammon wrote in message ...
Tom Bruhns wrote:
Hi all,

Hope you'll excuse this FA announcement in sci.electronics.design...I
normally avoid such things, but thought that these classic books might
be of special interest to someone here.

It's a set of three texts covering ELECTRICAL (as opposed to
electronic) engineering: Carl Edward Magnusson, "Direct Currents,"
"Alternating Currents," and "Electric Transients." These are from
1929, 1931 and 1926 respectively. More details at

so, are you retiring?

Well, it won't be too long till I retire from my current job, but that
doesn't mean I'd be retiring from the world. Win asked me a similar
question when we chatted on the phone a couple weeks ago about the RF
Design magazines...he asked what I was keeping. It took me just a
short moment to say, "my mind." Indeed I am keeping the references I
actually use the most, but I had an awakening, if you will, that all
the things I was keeping around were becoming more a burden to me than
a blessing. If others can get use out of them, that's wonderful. It
will save space in the landfill while helping both me and them. A
small percentage of what I'm disposing of I'm putting on eBay, but
most I'm just happy to give to folk that can use it. I've discovered
a local retired EE who volunteers at a couple high schools, trying to
get students interested in electronics, and they will be the
beneficiary of lots of parts and some small pieces of test equipment
that are redundant to me. And in fact, Win may be the recipient of
some other books not necessarily offered to the "general public."
John did get a couple of interesting ones...a small token of thanks
for one that he sent me a while back that has special meaning to me.

And if what I'm doing encourages others to share freely of what they
have but no longer really need...I'll be pleased indeed.

Cheers,
Tom

(My postings here are liable to be pretty sporadic until my cleaning
is further along. But there may be a few more "free" offers or the
rare "FA" posting.)