Radio Pioneers - 1945

by the Institute of Radio Engineers
reprinted by Lindsay Publications

You get a fascinating book published in 1945 by the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) as a keepsake for their Radio Pioneers Dinner in November 1945.

If you have any interest at all in old-time radio history, you'll know many of the names who were members back then. Don't forget the IRE was founded by Armstrong, Alexanderson, de Forest, Dubilier, DuMont, Farnsworth, Gernsback, Heising, Hazeltine, Jewett, Miessner, Pickard, Sarnoff, Secor, and many others.

You get a history of the IRE from it's beginning in 1908 complete with photos of John Stone Stone, Robert Marriott, Pickard, Kennelly, Pupin, Pierce, Morecroft, Langmuir and others. Then you get details on the Radio Club of America formed in 1909 by a "small group of amateur boy experimenters who originally called it the Junior Wireless Club Ltd." That was back in the days of spark.

Discover the history of the Veteran Wireless Operators Association and the Amateur Radio Relay League. See some of the early wireless catalogs and amateur stations. Get a brief but to-the-point chronology of radio developements to 1925. Through pictures meet Oliver Heaviside, Marconi, Mahlon Loomis, Clerk-Maxwell, Fleming, and, yes, Tesla. (But even then IRE members knew as brilliant as Tesla was he wasn't quite sane.)

You get pictures of early tubes, Poulsen in his lab, Marconi parabolic reflectors, a Fessenden alternator and more. The history is brief, fast reading, but informative. If you're not up on early radio history, this is a fun way to get your feet wet. You'll meet the personalities and discover what they did. Then you can go digging for more information about those topics that sound most interesting.

Fun reading. Well illustrated. Unusual quality. These are people who created the electronic world in which we live. Get a copy. 8-1/2 x 11 softcover 64 pages

No. 23462 ... $8.95