Radio phone receiving
Subtitle: A Practical Book For Everybody
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction 1; title: CHAPTER I; title: HOW RADIO TELEPHONING IS ACCOMPLISHED; title: The Nature of the Sound of Speech and Music 7; title: How Sound Passes from Speaker to Listener, or Audio Telephony 11; title: Wire Telephony ; or How Electric Currents Carry Speech  13; title: What Light Is; or the Electromagnetic Wave 18; title: Invisible Light and the Radio Wave 20; title: The Modulation and Control of the Radio Wave 27; title: Vocal Control or Modulation of the Radio Wave 29; title: Radio Telephone Reception; or Hearing Changes in the Radio Waves 32; title: What the Radio Telephone Transmitter Must Accomplish 35; title: What the Radio Telephone Receiver Must Accomplish 36; title: CHAPTER II; title: TUNING THE SIMPLE RECEIVING CIRCUIT; title: The Antenna as an Electric Circuit 40; title: The Resistance and Inductance of the Antenna 45; title: How Tuning Is Accomplished 48; title: Sharpness of Tuning 51; title: Practical Methods of Tuning 54; title: CHAPTER III; title: RECEIVING THE WAVES BY CRYSTAL DETECTORS; title: Why a Detector is Necessary to Translate the Waves 58; title: Characteristics of Crystal Detectors 60; title: Coupled Circuits 65; title: Coordination of the Elements of the Detector Circuit 69; title: Typical Crystal Detector Set 73; title: Interference 75; title: Types of Antennas 78; title: CHAPTER IV; title: THE VACUUM TUBE; title: What the Vacuum Tube Is 81; title: Characteristic Curves of the Three-Electrode Tube 88; title: Action of the Tube with No Grid Condenser 92; title: Action of the Tube with Grid Condenser 97; title: Improvement in Action of Tube by Use of Grid Condenser 102; title: Possibility of Eliminating Batteries 103; title: Approximate Ranges of Receivers 105; title: CHAPTER V; title: AMPLIFYING THE MUSIC OR SPEECH; title: The Problem of Amplification 108; title: The Vacuum-Tube Amplifier 109; title: The Multi-Stage Amplifier HQ; title: Transforming the Electrical Energy into Sound 120; title: Suiting the Loud Speaker to Its Audience 124; title: Concerning the Operation and Care of the Amplifying; title: Equipment 125; title: Distortion 129; title: CHAPTER VI; title: REGENERATIVE AND HETERODYNE RECEPTION; title: The Several Functions of the Three-Electrode Vacuum Tube 132; title: Regeneration Without Oscillation for Increasing Response in Telephone 134; title: Regeneration as a Cause of Oscillation 136; title: Synchronous Heterodyne Method of Radio-Telephone Reception 139; title: Non-Synchronous Heterodyne Method of Radio-Telegraph Reception 143; title: Noises Due to Local Causes in Vacuum-Tube Receivers 146; title: Interference and Atmospheric Disturbances 150; title: Radio-Frequency Amplification 155; title: Super-Heterodyne Method of Reception 160; title: CHAPTER VII; title: RADIO TELEPHONE BROADCASTING; title: What Broadcasting Is 163; title: The Physical Characteristics of Radio, in Their Relation to Broadcasting 164; title: Contrast Between Broadcasting and Point-to-Point Systems 166; title: Radio-Telephone Transmitting Apparatus 168; title: A Typical Broadcasting Station 171; title: Essentials of Radio Broadcasting 175; title: The Extent of Radio Broadcasting 177; title: The Public Value of Radio Broadcasting 178