[Test-Equipment] Textbooks Available On Line at Google Books

[Richard Knoppow]

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Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 1:16 PM
Subject: [Test-Equipment] Textbooks Available On Line at 
Google Books




Hi, Gang

Books.google.com has been expanding their non-fiction 
coverage.

If you search for "electrical" and then choose the "show 
full view only"
category, some neat books emerge.  I've been browsing works
by Oliver Heaviside and Nicola Tesla.

It's also nice to have "Methods of Measuring Electrical 
Resistance"
by Northrup (of Leeds and Northrup fame).

The books can be read on line, or the pdf files can be 
downloaded
and printed.

Google only provides full texts to the early 1920's,
it seems, but this should improve due to a recent deal they 
negotiated
with the book publishers.

For some reason, Google Books doesn't work with Firefox
or Opera browsers, but works well with Internet Explorer.

73,
Ed Knobloch

     I've downloaded a bunch of books from Google using 
Firefox. Try clicking on the PDF and choosing save link 
rather than opening it or choose open in new tab. Some of 
these files are very large. Unfortunately some of the scans 
are very poor with many unreadable pages. Evidently no one 
edits or monitors the scanned material. Nonetheless its a 
very valuable research resource.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com