Radio Principles and Practice

Abstract

THE professional worker in radio telegraphy is sorely embarrassed by the natural and simple request so often addressed to him by his non-specialist friends, “Tell me what book on wireless I ought to read, so that I may have an intelligent appreciation of what is happening in and behind my broadcast receiver”. He is unable conscientiously to prescribe any single book that will tell the whole story, reasonably fully, in due proportion, and in a language suited to the reader with a general education. A general education must not be assumed to include advanced physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, meteorology, solar physics, and the like. He may feel that he would like to write such a book: it could be done now with some show of authority, of definiteness, and of simplicity; but he has his daily work to do, and so he turns hopefully to each new book list. The spate of deplorably inadequate popular expositions which was released by the advent of broadcasting is now happily abated; books, such as these before us, may be expected to contain an informed and balanced survey of the fields indicated in their titles. Is one of them the book for his listening friends? Or for himself?

(1) Elements of Radio Communication.

Prof. John H. Morecroft. Pp. x + 269. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1929.) 15s. net.

(2) Radio Telegraphy and Telephony: a Complete Textbook for Students of Wireless Communication.

Rudolph L. Duncan Charles E. Drew. Pp. x + 950. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1929.) 37s. 6d. net.

(3) Radio Traffic Manual and Operating Regulations.

Rudolph L. Duncan Charles E. Drew. Pp. ix + 187. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1929.) 10s. net.

(4) Radio Data Charts: a Series of Abacs providing most of the Essential Data required in Receiver Design.

Dr. R. T. Beatty. Pp. 82. (London: Iliffe and Sons, Ltd., 1930.) 4s. 6d. net.