[GreenKeys] Re: GreenKeys digest, Vol 4 #41 - 16 msgs

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:27:34 -0800

At 11:56 PM -0500 2/10/2003, [email protected] wrote:
>In a message dated 2/10/2003 8:07:10 PM Central Standard Time,
>[email protected] writes:
>>  Subject: [GreenKeys] The famous AT&T GREEN BOOK
>>
>>  This is a really good book on electricity and telegraph.  Highly
>>  recommended.
>>
>>  Go for it!
>>
>>  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3006250156&
>>  category=15050
>>
>
>Don,
>
>I'm not familiar with this.  It may be a good reference.  But by convention
>the Green Books are various volumes of "U.S. Army in World War II".  In 1966,
>it ran to  66 volumes (of which I have about one-third).  When a radio
>collector mentions the Green Books, he usually means the three volumes of
>"The Technical Services  -  The Signal Corps" .
>
>73
>Robert Downs
>Houston
<[email protected]>

This is one volume, the AT&T Green Book;  Electricity for Telephone & 
Telegraph with a photo of the "Spirit of Electricity" aka "Spirit of 
Communications" aka, "Golden Boy" inside the front.

Don
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North American Data Communications Museum
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Computer Museum of America
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