Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son
by John Mills
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Chapters (25)
- LETTERS OF A RADIO-ENGINEER TO HIS SON
- 3LETTER 1 ELECTRICITY AND MATTER
- 9LETTER 2 WHY A COPPER WIRE WILL CONDUCT ELECTRICITY
- 16LETTER 3 HOW A BATTERY WORKS
- 27LETTER 4 THE BATTERIES IN YOUR RADIO SET
- 34LETTER 5 GETTING ELECTRONS FROM A HEATED WIRE
- 40LETTER 6 THE AUDION
- 49LETTER 7 HOW TO MEASURE AN ELECTRON STREAM
- 58LETTER 8 ELECTRON-MOVING-FORCES
- 67LETTER 9 THE AUDION-CHARACTERISTIC
- 78LETTER 10 CONDENSERS AND COILS
- 87LETTER 11 A “C-W” TRANSMITTER
- 97LETTER 12 INDUCTANCE AND CAPACITY
- 114LETTER 13 TUNING
- 126LETTER 14 WHY AND HOW TO USE A DETECTOR
- 142LETTER 15 RADIO-TELEPHONY
- 154LETTER 16 THE HUMAN VOICE
- 167LETTER 17 GRID BATTERIES AND GRID CONDENSERS FOR DETECTORS
- 176LETTER 18 AMPLIFIERS AND THE REGENERATIVE CIRCUIT
- 187LETTER 19 THE AUDION AMPLIFIER AND ITS CONNECTIONS
- 199LETTER 20 TELEPHONE RECEIVERS AND OTHER ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES
- 212LETTER 21 YOUR RECEIVING SET AND HOW TO EXPERIMENT
- 230LETTER 22 HIGH-POWERED RADIO-TELEPHONE TRANSMITTERS
- 242LETTER 23 AMPLIFICATION AT INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCIES
- 251LETTER 24 BY WIRE AND BY RADIO
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