Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Electrical Engineering II. Radio Communication Part 1 - History and Development

8vo. Wrappers. Front wrap loose, Copy very good, very lightly foxed. Index. 58 Figures including diagrams and Photographic Illustrations of equipment from 1878 to 1943 including clockwork transmitter and detector, Hertz Apparatus, Oscillators and seonators, Lodge Coherers, Magnetic Detectors, Pedersen tikker, Fleming diode valves, Marconi, Lodge-Muirhead, Poldhu, diagram of different aerial configurations, Telefunken, Duddell, Poulsen, Jigger, Bellini-Tosi, Catkin, Rigby, Ongar, Burndept, Baird Television. Contents includes Electromagnetic Waves, Detectors, Early Wireless Telegraphy Experiments, The Development of Wireless Telegraphy, The Thermoinic Valve, Further Developments in Transmission, Wireless Telephony Recievers, Television and Picture Telegraphy, Miscellaneous Developments ( Microphones, Loudspeakers, Measurement of Wavelength), References.