[R-390] Old EE texts

[Dan Merz]

Ed,  some of these books are great - I haven't seen them all but don't fo=
rget the 1932 edition of Terman "Radio Engineering", but it's not the pin=
 stripe type.  This book has detailed stuff on grid leak detectors that w=
as dropped out of later editions,  probably because grid leak detectors w=
ent out of fashion.  Of course,  I'm biased by being a grad of Stanford b=
ut I never discovered Terman's stuff til well after my college years thou=
gh he was a legend by my time.  We used the W.R. Hill "Electronics in Eng=
ineering" for the general electronics course required of all engineers,  =
which is one of your series.  It's still on my shelf and referred to occa=
sionally.   Nice to hear about your interest,  Dan.

Ed Berbari wrote:

> Hope this is on topic.  I know that many you of you have had an enginee=
ring education and are at least in the 50 plus age range.  Hence my inqui=
ry  may make some sense to you. I have been collecting the electrical eng=
ineering texts in the Frederick Terman - McGraw Hill series.  These books=
 were published from about 1946 to 1970 and cover the "modernization" of =
the EE curriculum.  By this I mean the inclusion of high level math and t=
heory and up to the period just before computing became popular.  Most we=
re bound in black cloth with red pin stripes on the spine (this can vary =
with orange in the Princeton sub-series or green in the Brooklyn Poly sub=
-series).  Frederick Terman's contributions were his multi-editions of Ra=
dio Engineering.  In addition, Terman was well known as the former head o=
f EE and the Dean of Engineering at Stanford and  the one who encouraged =
Dave and Bill to build that audio oscillator in their garage.
>
>
>
> Well, I figured there were about 144 different books in this series and=
 I have collected many of them. I have an excel spreadsheet which I would=
 be glad to share if you are indeed interested or have something to offer=
=2E  The remaining ones are becoming more difficult to find so I am broad=
ening my search.
>
>  Thanks for your patience.
>
>  Ed, W9EJB
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