The cover is great and the construction of the book is very good, it will stand up to a lot of reading time. This is the Jubilee Souvenir Issue of March 1938 with Hugo Gernsback as editor. The event is the 50th aniversary of radio and the book has 144 pages of great reading and ads from yesteryear.
The quality of the ads is truely outstanding. This RCA ad is shown on the back cover...
The table of contents page shows the how Hugo Gernsback celebrated the 50 years of radio in this publication:
- Editorial: 50 years of Radio
- The Growth of Broadcasting
- Progress of Radio Receiving Equipment
- Origin and Growth of Radio Servicing
- A Chronological History of Radio
- Reminiscences of Old-Timers
- The Story of Amateur Radio
- Radio Parts of Yesteryear
- Development of Sound Equipment
- The Old E.I Co. Days
- Mileposts in Television
- Fleming's Valve - and Up
- Famous Early Radio Circuits
- Some Old-Time Radio Circuits
- Radio in the Future
- Predictions and Fulfillments
- New Circuits in Modern Radio Receivers - No. 6
- The Radio Month in Review
- How to Make the Radio-Craft Super-Deluxe 30 Tube Set
- New Tubes Introduced to Radio Men in 1937-'38
- Book Reviews
- Super-Regeneration - in 1922
- When the Neutrodyne Made its Bow
- Early Tube Experiments
- A $750, Kc.-Calibrated Tuner - in 1927 !
- Credits
Contents March 1938 issue:
The book's table of contents page:
Ad that originally appeared in 1921, faithfully reproduced in the book as shown below:
The text has many ads depicting the parts of yesteryear ! Shown below is a 1921 ad for Montgomery Ward Co for radio parts:
And pictures of radio stations, including KDKA:
A wonderful book you will read from cover to cover. The 11 page section "Reminiscences of Old-Timers" allows the reader to pass back over time with the famous old timers such as Dr. Lee de Forest, Dr. Frank Conrad, David Sarnoff and many others and their achievements. Soft Bound, 144 pages.
