[Milsurplus] WW-II,The Signal Corps series and other books

[David Ross]

Hey gang -

William Donzelli wrote:
> 
> > Another interesting book is, "History of Communications-Electronics in the
> > United States Navy," 1963, by Captain L. S. Howeth, USN (Retired).  655
> > pages.  It covers the whole radio history from before WWI, the interwar
> > period, and WWII.  It includes the spark vs arc controversy, (arc won) early
> > Radar pictures, etc.  Don't ask me where to get it - I bought mine at a
> > radio flea market for a trifle.
> 
> Rare book, and certainly worth a look. My only problem with it is that it
> is very spotty...huge amounts of information about the early years, but
> by 1930 it goes down to nearly zero. Then it picks up again for a little
> wartime information, and the non-radio bits seem out of place.
> 


  The Howeth book can be found online at:
http://www.angelfire.com/nc2/whitetho/1963hw.htm

  Incidentally, if you want to archive a copy of the book (or any other
website) on your own computer, a program called sitesnag will do it for
you.  Sitesnag is available for download at:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,20161,00.asp


all the best
Dave Ross    N7EPI    ross@hypertools.com