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Centenary of Service - A history of electricity. Anthony Byers, , The Electricity Council. Ladybird - Air, Wind and Flight. Newing B. Ladybird - How it Works: The Computer. Ladybird - How it Works: The Telephone. Ladybird - Levers, Pulleys and Engines. Ladybird - Light, Mirrors and Lenses. Ladybird - Magnets, Bulbs and Batteries. Ladybird - Making a Transistor Radio.

Ladybird - The Story of Nuclear Power. Childs, Ladybird Books, First Published Newnes - More Simple Radio Circuits. Edited by A. Collins, Newnes, Newnes - Radio Repair Questions and Answers. Presented free with the April issue of Practical Electronics. Practical Wireless Handbook, Newnes, Arranged by subject category, then alphabetically by title.

Note that there is much overlap in the subjects e. Use ctrl-f in your browser to find a particular book or author On most books you click on the name of the title to download an introduction the first few pages, usually the title through table of contents This way you can see if you're interested before downloading many megabytes of data.

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Applied Electronics , Truman S. Gray , , pages - Courtesy of Gary Smith. An introductory EE text - "A first course in electronics, electron tubes, and associated circuits". Barton Hoag, , pages. This college-level electronics text is "designed for the student with only a limited background in physics and mathematics". Covers the basics of AC and DC circuits and radio propagation, then vacuum tubes and circuits that use them.

Has some information not found on other texts, like high-frequency and microwave radio, transmission line theory, and DC amplifiers. Another good text! Circuit Theory and Design , John L. Stewart , , pages - Courtesy of Gary Smith. Continues with analysis of feedback amplifiers and oscillators, and even servomechanisms.

Circuit Theory of Electron Devices , E. Milton Boone , , pages - Courtesy of Gary Smith. Though the title may be a little misleading, this is a college textbook about circuits. Electrical Communication , Arthur Albert, , pages - Courtesy of anonymous donor. Most of this book is dedicated to telephony. Sections on acoustics and transducers, fundamental electronics, and details on telephone systems. The latter half of the book discusses radio communications, mostly as they relate to the telephone system.

Electrical Engineering , E. Kimberly, , pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! A different college EE text, this one is target at non-EE majors. Less theory than most EE texts, and lots of information about motors. I think this was targeted largely at Civil, Industrial, and Mechanical engineers. Only one chapter on "electronic" devices tubes and tube circuits.

Download full text with index, 5. As you might guess from the title, this textbook is all about the theory and design of amplifiers. While mostly containing tube circuits it does include some information on those new-fangled transistor things. Plenty if math in this one, it concentrates on wide band e. Electronic Circuit Theory , Henry J.

Mason , , pages - Courtesy of Gary Smith. An EE textbook that concentrates on modeling of vacuum tubes and semiconductors. This is one of the most comprehensive texts in the collection. According to the forward, the book was developed from the lecture notes of a special wartime electronics training course. A reasonably mathematical treatment of basic circuit theory, vacuum tubes, and practical circuits. Electronic Circuits , Thomas L. Martin , , pages - Courtesy of Gary Smith. A college EE text covering vacuum tube and transistor devices and circuits.

Perhaps a little more practical than many. Electronic Circuits , E. Angelo , , pages - Courtesy of Gary Smith. This is a college EE textbook at the dawn of semiconductors, "A unified treatment of vacuum tubes and transistors".

A practical EE handbook for engineers as well as students, covers all kinds of circuits, with tons of formulas and design examples. A series of electronics articles from the 's covering a wide variety of topics. A collection of articles covering a variety of practical design subjects of the 's. Download full text, This is a newer college text, covering vacuum tubes, circuit analysis, and some practical amplifier design considerations.

More practical than some texts, it even includes some tube curves for popular tubes of the day. Engineering Electronics , Donald Fink, , pages - Courtesy of anonymous donor. Same name, different book. An engineering text written for engineers familiar with electricity but not "electronics". Covers physical electronics, tubes, and tube applications. Functional Circuits and Oscillators , Herbert J. Reich , , pages - Courtesy of Gary Smith.

Quite an interesting book that covers mostly negative-resistance oscillator circuits, but also discusses some unusual devices, like counter tubes and beam deflection tubes. Also some discussion of digital vacuum tube circuits. Fundamentals of Engineering Electronics , William Dow, , pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor. A very unassuming title for a page engineering book! The first part of the book has a rather in-depth treatment of vacuum tube operation, and details of amplifier circuit design.

The second part delves into the physics of gas tubes and phototubes, and also a bit of power supply design. Higgy, , 99 pages - Courtesy of Bob Sweeney. Sort a lab manual for performing a series of 32 experiments using vacuum tubes. Covers basics, the use of test ewuipment, and the construction of a number of different ciurcuits - basic amplifiers, radio circuits, etc. Houldin, , pages - Courtesy of Daniel Thompson. British textbook on electronics for university students. Starts with the basics, progresses through vacuum tubes and early seimcondutor devices, then into circuits.

Radiotecnia Basica, Fransisco Garcia Berlanga, , pages. This Spanish-language text is a fairly complete treatment of vacuum tubes as well as semiconductors, as applied to radio circuits. MB PDF file. A later and greatly expanded 4th version of the book above.

A wonderful reference for anybody designing equipment with vacuum tubes. Sections on digital computers, nuclear physics, wire transmission Plus practical guides for things like power supply design, including how to design and wind the transformers and chokes,. Seachable DJVU file A first year EE textbook that bridges the vacuum tube age and the semiconductor age.

Talks about tube and semiconductor devices, and the basics of amplifiers, oscillators, and power supplies. A Briggs, , pages - Courtesy of John Atwood. An interesting "audio encyclopedia", from A to Z.

Download full text with index, Amplifier Builders Guide , Hugo Gernsback, , 33 double pages. From the editors of Radiocraft, this practical guide concentrates on the design and construction of audio amplifiers. Two parts: the first on amplifier theory and design, the second giving six practical designs to build. Talks about phase splitters, feedback, and tone controls, things not addressed in most textbooks. Amplifiers , H. Lewis York, , pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen!

It's a good practical guide to the design of amplifiers, with many example schematics using the GEC and Mullard valves of the time. Great book for a reasonably short introduction to tube amp design for the non-engineer. Download full text with index, 3. Briggs, , pages. A very cool book from England on tube amplifiers. Covers theory, and concentrates on amplifier quality - distortion, noise, etc.

Practical, not too theoretical. Covers amplifier circuits as well as tone controls, mic and pickup preamps, and power supplies. Also includes schematics and parts list for the "Garner Amplifier", an amplifier, as well as a preamp and a couple of tuner circuits. Download full text with index , 2.

We've all seen the classic GEC amp schematics, but here's the whole book! Seventeen amplifier designs ranging from 3 to 1, watts are presented, along with tube data and design considerations. Download full text with index, 1. This is a nice practical guide to implementing feedback in a tube amp, including old-fashioned calculation methods. Download full text, 4. This is a 3-volume set on, as the title implies, basic audio. The best introduction to tube hi-fi I've seen, the first volume starts with the nature of sound, and covers the basics of speakers and microphones.

Volume 2 continues with amplification, covering the basics of amplifier design. Volume 3 covers a little more advanced topics like feedback, power supplies, and recording. Volume 1 pages Download full text with index, 4. Volume 2 pages Download full text with index, 4. Volume 3 pages Download full text with index, 3.

Hi-Fi Furniture? This book is about how to design and build the wooden cabinets used for stereo equipment and speakers. Also includes info on room, layout and acoustics. A very nice practical discussion of distortion and feedback in audio amplifiers. The first section describes harmonic distortion and how it gets created in a tube amplifier stage.

The remainder of the book describes various feedback methods and their implementation around one or more stages. Appendices show how to calculate stage gain with feedback. The title pretty much says it all here.. Discusses distortion, speakers, and amplifier design. Good, practical, easy-to-read advice and explanation of deign techniques like feedback. Schematics of a variety of audio circuits, mostly amplifiers from 1W to 75 watts.

Unique in this collection so far , this book concentrates on the recording process, and to some extent the reproduction process, as opposed to just amplifiers or radios.

A fantastic book if you are looking for info on how records were are? A very practical book, it includes schematics of many pieces of professional audio of the 's. Also contains info about acoustics, loudspeakers and cabinets, and PA system design. A history of the development of stereophonic sound. Discusses film, tape, and disc storage, and recording and reproduction.

Aeronautical Radio , Myron Eddy, , pages - Courtesy of anonymous donor. I'm surprised to see such a lengthy text from on aeronautical radio! As you might guess this is a very comprehensive treatment of the state of the art circa Starts with the basics - electricity, radio, tubes - then delves into radiotelephone and telegraph transmitters and receivers, direction finding, navigation beacons, even VHF instrument landing systems. Rider, , pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor. A detailed look at AFC systems.

Includes design issues, troubleshooting, and servicing AFC in radio receivers. Download full text, 7. This German-language book is a very thorough treatment of FM receiver design. Written for marine and aeronautical radio men, this is a handbook on radio direction finding. Discusses different types pf DF antennae and how they work, as well as circuitry. Download full text, 3. The Frank C. Jones Antenna Handbook, Frank C. Jones, , 66 pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor. Another short antenna book targeted at the advanced amateur radio operator.

A comprehensive treatment of FM transmission and reception, including FM broadcast and television sound. Includes design info and servicing help. An interesting, very old German-language book on IF transformers and their design. Includes typical tube circuits for radio use. Principles of Aeronautical Radio Engineering , P. Sandretto, , pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor. Nice look into the early days of long-range avionics.

Discusses navigation "avigation" and communications systems, including VHF and HF systems for airborne use, radio altimeters, and supporting electronic systems. You can learn what the "cone of silence" really is!. A fairly comprehensive antenna book targeted at the advanced amateur radio operator.

Download full text, 9. The venerable ARRL handbook, edition. Many of us learned all about tubes from this book OK, in my case, one about 30 years later than this one. Practical information on electronic fundamentals and tube circuits, and lots of ham projects - transmitters, receivers, antennas. Cool catalog section at the end. Here's another edition a few years later, full-color catalog at the end. Radio Electronics, Samuel Seely, , pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor. A comprehensive later radio textbook covering communications theory, tubes, and transmitters and recievers.

The Radio Handbook , William Orr editor , 15th edition , ! This is sort of an ARRL handbook on steroids. Very complete, covering basic theory though practical construction of mostly ham radio equipment, though much applies to any vintage electronic project.

There are even sections on "high-fidelity techniques" and "electronic computers"! Even includes a math section and info on how to set up your workshop I like the "workshop-in-a-closet"! The Radio Handbook , Editors and Engineers, 7th edition , pages.

As you would expect the circuits in this older book use some older tubes, and no mention of semiconductors. There is a section on "radio therapy", if you want to build your own diathermy machine! The Radio Handbook, Editors of "Radio", 5th edition , pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor. Here's a book that pre-dates the invention of the pentode Talks about how a triode works, and how to use it in amplifier and oscillator circuits and in a radio receiver.

A "training text and guide for repairmen and technicians" by the US air force about radio receivers. A good practical description of receiver design. Radio Receiver Design Part 1 , K.

Sturley, , pages - Courtesy of John Atwood. This UK publication gives a thorough treatment of the design of valve-based radio receivers. Part 1 covers valve basics, and the RF side of a receiver: from the antenna through the detector.

Radio Receiver Design Part 2 , K. A continuation of the above, this volume covers audio-frequency amplifiers, frequency modulation, and television. Radio Telegraphy and Telephony, Rudolph L.

Duncan, , pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor. At over 1, pages, one might expect so! Magnetism, tubes, transmitters, receivers, antennas I have lots of books on receiver design - here's a whole book dedicated to transmitters! Targeted at professional engineers rather than hams, this covers it all from oscillators through power amps, modulators, power supplies, and antenna matching. Reflex Radio Receivers , P. Edelman, , 64 pages - Thanks to Terry Walker. Small DIY book on building your own "reflex" radio receiver.

Make one tube do the work of two! Download full text, 8. Sideband Handbook , General Electric, , pages - Courtesy of an anonymous donor. Awesome detail and a great resource of you are building or working on vintage SSB radios. The Technique of Radio Design , E. Zepler, , pages - Courtesy of John Atwood. Sort of an engineer's practical guide to radio receiver design. This is an excellent, relatively modern text on vacuum tubes. Very practical, not too much math, and it has some very nice illustrations.

Very specific to tubes, discusses how they work, how they're built, and circuits. Conductance Curve Design, Dr. Keats A. Pullen, , pages. This book presents a method to design tube amplifier stages using curves of constant grid-to-plate transconductance and plate conductance. Equations and step-by-step instructions are provided to select the correct tube, calculate gain and distortion, and other relevant parameters.

Full sets of curves are provided for 35 different tube types. Many thanks to Robb Legg, who did all the digitization work, including OCR and reproducing the graphs - a tremendous amount of work!

Electron-Tube Circuits , Samuel Seely, , pages. Another college-level textbook on vacuum tubes. Covers tube theory, tuned and un-tuned amplifiers, oscillators, and power supplies. Some nice details about tube-based voltage regulator circuits, and sections on electronic computing circuits, relaxation oscillators and sweep circuits you won't find in the other texts.

This is essentially an updated version of "Vacuum Tube Design" below. Intended for internal use only, this book contains 53 "articles" on different aspects of vacuum tube design and manufacture.