[GreenKeys] Re: Bell System Technical Journals

Don Robert House drhouse at nadcomm.com
Tue Jul 12 14:15:25 EDT 2005


John,

I am looking for copies of the BSTJ from 1953 to 1979.  Do you know  
of any sources?

Don  K9TTY


On 12 Jul 2005, at 11:47 AM, John Lawson wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, jhhaynes at earthlink.net wrote:
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>> for $15,600.  A Bell Labs monograph with a Shannon paper went for  
>> $9,000.
>> These are things that should be in any good engineering library.
>>
>
>
>   Makes me wonder (a bit) what my complete set of the BSTJs from #1  
> (1921) to #23 (1943) is worth.  Has all of that - has Nyquist's  
> paper, and it's famous appendix ("Certain Factors Affecting  
> Telegraph Speed) now known as 'Nyquist's Theorem') - all of Harald  
> Bode's early work, E.C. Wente, Harry F. Olson... so much of the  
> foundations of our technology came from Bell Labs - and damn near  
> all of the early advances in radio communications. Some of it sure  
> is amazing reading.
>
>   Not that I'm much interested in selling. Trade for 100 acres of  
> Montana forest with a mountain QTH in the middle of it - hmmm,  
> maybe...
>
>  Cheers
>
> John  KB6SCO
>
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