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Cafe visitor Steve G. just sent me a link to the
Project Gutenberg website where you can download copyright-free
books and other material on a broad range of subjects. The particular
page he sent me to is for books with "radio" in the subject. There are
currently more than 44,000 titles from which to choose, and many of
them are available in multiple file formats like HTML, Kindle, EPUB,
and Plucker. Although most date back quite a few decades, there are
more contemporary titles whose authors placed them in the public domain
for free, legal access. If you are a fan of the
Carl & Jerry adventure series from Popular Electronics,
then you might enjoy
The Radio Boys and
Astounding Stories of Super Science. If you like historical
books on technology, maybe
Project Trinity 1945-1946 would be of interest; interestingly, the
opening page of the book reads, "Destroy this report when it is no longer
needed."
 Another
book written in 1922 by Western Electric employee John Mills titled
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son provides layman-level (with
some detail) insight into the research behind early radio circuits and
antennas, including studies of the human voice and ear and how they
produce and detect sound, respectively. For historical data, how about
a 1917 copy of
A Brief Account of Radio-Activity, written in the
 era
when researchers were willingly exposing their body parts to the mysterious
atomic forces and suffering sometimes gruesome maladies because of it.
If you want something more contemporary, try
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier,
published in 1992.
Relativity: The Special and General Theory, was written by none
other than Albert Einstein himself! If you are not in the tech mood,
then there are plenty of other topics available ranging from classics
like
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens,
The Republic
by Plato, and
Autobiography
of Benjamin Franklin. Enjoy!
Posted January 3, 2014
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