Indeed. I recently ran across a catalog of reprinted books -- there was one from 1910 about the latest innovations in aeroplanes, one from 1913 edited by Hugo Gernsback (yes, that one) collecting letters from amateur radio buffs, talking about how they'd built their sets and what they'd done with them, and other incredibly precious nuggets from earlier years. The catalog was Lindsay Books (hee), and they are online at lindsaybks.com, if you'd like to go look. I plan to get my dad his Christmas gifts from here -- in fact, one book was from 1951, about new discoveries and innovations in electronics, and that was right about when he was learning radar in the Navy and was soon to come home to become an apprentice electrician at Mesta Machine in Pittsburgh! He may cry. But... it's all good.
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Date: 2008-09-27 01:05 am (UTC)