Learn from Men Who Are Pioneering Electronics
July 1959 Popular Electronics

July 1959 Popular Electronics Table of Contents Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

Here is a recruitment advertisement published by the the U. S. Army in the July 1959 edition of Popular Electronics. This was only a few years after the Korean War ended in 1953 and a couple years before we got involved in the Vietnam War in 1961. It's always interesting to see what the mindset about the current state of electronics was many moons ago, and to compare it with today's technology. In the same manner, people 60 years from now will look at today's recruitment ads and be amazed at how relatively crude our contemporary state of the art is.

Learn From Men Who Are Pioneering Electronics

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Posted September 17, 2019
(updated from original post on 10/1/2011)