Abstract
IT is doubtful whether the historical method, with citations of patent numbers, is now really appropriate to the development of ‘wireless’ before a “Home University” audience, but Dr. Eccles almost persuades us that the method is, after all, the right one. He recovers the excitements of that headlong progress which made the decade centred about 1918 a miniature Augustan age for radio engineering, and led to the foundation of an industry which has since resisted, more success fully than most others, the slings and arrows of economic disturbance. The most serious criticism of the book is that it makes the whole complex business look too easy; there is a dangerously disarming air of simplicity about the first chapter that will probably lead many readers to suppose that they ‘understand wireless'. They will find themselves increasingly doubtful as they go on, for the tempo accelerates until the later chapters have not infrequent elements of real unclarity.
Wireless.
By W. H. Eccles. (The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.) Pp. 256. (London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1933.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Wireless . Nature 132, 336 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132336b0
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