April 1959 Popular Electronics
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April 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.

April 1959

Vol. 10, No. 4

Russian Jamming - The Electronic Iron Curtain, Will Bohr	41
Inside the Dry Cell, by Saunder Harris	51
Test Instruments Part 4: The Vacuum-Tube Voltmeter - D.C. Ranges, Larry Klein	54
A Transmitting Tube is Born	63
How to Make Power Transformer Substitutions, Eugene Richardson	73
The Electronics of Fluorescent Lamps, by Edgar D. Morgan	82
Electronic Sticklers	106
Crossnumber Puzzle, by John A. Comstock	108
Short-Wave Report: Reception Versus Jamming, by Hank Bennet	109
After Class: What is a Servomechanism?, by Harvey Pollack	118

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April 1959 Popular ElectronicsTable of Contents

April 1959 Popular Electronics
Table of Contents