Letters of a radio-engineer to his son.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1922
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Radio
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: 1 Electricity and Matter 3; title: 2 Why a Copper Wire Will Conduct Electricity 9; title: 3 How a Battery Works 16; title: 4 The Batteries in Your Radio Set 27; title: 5 Getting Electrons from a Heated Wire 34; title: 6 The Audion 40; title: 7 How to Measure an Electron Stream 48; title: 8 Electron-Moving-Forces 57; title: 9 The Audion-Characteristic 66; title: 10 Condensers and Coils 77; title: 11 A "C-W" Transmitter 86; title: 12 Inductance and Capacity 96; title: 13 Tuning 112; title: 14 Why and How to Use a Detector 124; title: 15 Radio-Telephony 140; title: 16 The Human Voice 152; title: 17 Grid Batteries and Grid Condensers for Detectors 165; title: 18 Amplifiers and the Regenerative Circuit 176; title: 19 The Audion Amplifier and Its Connections 187; title: 20 Telephone Receivers and Other Electromagnetic Devices 199; title: 21 Your Receiving Set and How to Experiment 211; title: 22 High-Powered Radio-Telephone Transmitters 230; title: 23 Amplification at Intermediate Frequencies 242; title: 24 By Wire and by Radio 251; title: Index 263; title: LIST OF PLATES; title: I One of the Lines of Towers at Radio Central Frontispiece; title: II Bird's-Eye View of Radio Central 10; title: III Dry Battery for Use in Audion Circuits, and also Storage Battery 27; title: IV Radiotron 42; title: V Variometer and Variable Condenser of the General Radio Company. Voltmeter and Ammeter of the Weston Instrument Company 91; title: VI Low-Power Transmitting Tube, U V 202 106; title: VII Photographs of Vibrating Strings 155; title: VIII To Illustrate the Mechanism for the Production of the Human Voice 170; title: IX Western Electric Loud Speaking Receiver. Crystal Detector Set of the General Electric Co. Audibility Meter of General Radio Co. 203; title: X Audio-Frequency Transformer and Banked-Wound Coil 218; title: XI Broadcasting Equipment, Developed by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Western Electric Company 235; title: XII Broadcasting Station of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the Roof of the Walker-Lispenard Bldg, in New York City where the Long-distance Telephone Lines Terminate 250