Radio for Beginners: A Self-Teaching Course (1943, 324 pages).

This is a great book for the beginner in radio! It was written for people that know nothing, or very little, about radio. The book is divided into 26 short chapters to help you see and understand important ideas quickly and easily.

As you study the book, you will want to know whether you have really learned what you are studying. You can check yourself, since there is a test at the end of each chapter and the answers are given at the end of the book.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Wave Motion
Chapter 2 Waves in Ether
Chapter 3 A Simple Radio Receiving Set
Chapter 4 The Aerial-ground System
Chapter 5 The Tuner
Chapter 6 The Reproducer
Chapter 7 The Detector
Chapter 8 Wave Form
Chapter 9 The Antenna Coupler
Chapter 10 Electron Flow in the Aerial-ground System
Chapter 11 Electron Flow in the Tuning Circuit
Chapter 12 Electron Flow in the Crystal Detector and Phones
Chapter 13 The Vacuum-tube Detector the Diode
Chapter 14 The Vacuum-tube Detector the Triode
Chapter 15 The Regenerative Detector
Chapter 16 The Audio-frequency Amplifier
Chapter 17 Eliminating the B Battery
Chapter 18 Eliminating the A Battery
Chapter 19 Eliminating the C Battery
Chapter 20 The A.C.-D.C. Power Supply
Chapter 21 The Dynamic Speaker
Chapter 22 The Radio-frequency Amplifier
Chapter 23 Volume Control
Chapter 24 Tone control
Chapter 25 The Superheterodyne Receiver
Chapter 26 Types of Vacuum Tubes
Final Tests A, B, C, D, E, F
Appendix
Index

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