(1) Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony: An Outline for Electrical Engineers and Others (2) Thermionic Tubes in Radio-Telegraphy and Telephony (3) Continuous Wave Wireless Telegraphy (4) Principles of Radio-Communication

Abstract

(i) IT is a pleasure to come across a technical book, like that by Mr. Turner, which has the literary qualities of clearness, life, and continuity. In too many scientific text-books the manner is as cold as the matter is dead and already dissected; the parts are evident, but the whole is left to the constructive imagination of the reader. A book may be crammed with exact information, and yet be so unreadable as to have little value from the point of view of education. Even quite a slight historical framework adds human interest and may guide the student along the course of thought which resulted in discovery, and a text-book in which such a framework exists is therefore much more educative than one which merely states the physical facts, however accurately.

(1) Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony: An Outline for Electrical Engineers and Others.

By L. B. Turner. Pp. xii + 195 + 24 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1921.) 20s. net.

(2) Thermionic Tubes in Radio-Telegraphy and Telephony.

By John Scott-Taggart. Pp. xxiii + 424. (London: The Wireless Press, Ltd., n.d.) 25s.

(3) Continuous Wave Wireless Telegraphy.

By Prof. W. H. Eccles. Part 1. Pp. vii + 407. (London: The Wireless Press, Ltd., n.d.) 25s. net.

(4) Principles of Radio-Communication.

By Prof. J. H. Morecroft, assisted by A. Pinto and W. A. Curry. Pp. x + 935. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1921.) 45s. net.