Ping: John Curl - Standard Handbook for Electical Engineers

[Steve Eddy]

Hey John!

Here's something you (and perhaps others) might enjoy. Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers published by McGraw Hill in 1918. Found it available as a complete edition on Google Books.

It's a 90MB download so it'll take a bit.

shfee.pdf

se

[jam]

I don't think that Mr.Curl is that old but you never know.................

[scott wurcer]

Lots of no feedback designs

[Netlist]

The Richardson weigher and the Hammond water meter (page 212, 213) are, among others, simple works of art. Great find, thanks.

[Steve Eddy]

Originally Posted by scott wurcer

Lots of no feedback designs

Yup. The triode was just a wee lad of 11 and his brothers tetrode and pentode had yet to be born.

It all went downhill from there.

se

[Steve Eddy]

Originally Posted by Netlist

The Richardson weigher and the Hammond water meter (page 212, 213) are, among others, simple works of art. Great find, thanks.

Glad you enjoyed it.

I've only given it a rather cursory perusal but later I'm gonna load it up on my laptop (thanks again, Jam!), curl up in a nice comfy chair and just lose myself in it for a few hours.

se

[Ian Finch]

Don't yer think some of these precious technologies will get recycled in nextgen audio?

[janneman]

Originally Posted by Ian Finch

Don't yer think some of these precious technologies will get recycled in nextgen audio?

Hopefully not. As Hugo said above, these 'constructions' are works of art, and they have a great emotional value. They also appeal to our appreciation of something made well and/or made by hand. But as engineering solutions they are necessarily relatively clumsy, inaccurate and unreliable, at least when compared to current technologies.

jd