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   An assortment of publications and booklets about technology from radio's earlier years: 1900 to 1945
Short run journals, one-of-a-kind local program schedules and single issues of publications about hobbyist set construction, antennas, servicing and general technical fields are found in this section.  All are from the early days of radio from the 20's to the end of the Golden Age.
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QST War Number
May 1917 issue proclaiming the prohibition of amateur radio during The Great War.		        
Radio Library International
5 volume textbook in one PDF
1928		 All About Radio Parts
Radio News Staff
1924		 Radio Broadcast's Data Sheet
Series Two
Arts & Sciences #6
Experimental Wireless Construction		 Wireless Course
1915
6th Edition
Gernsback et. al.
Training and a bit of history 		How to Tune Your Radio Set
Muhleman & Radio News Staff
1924
ARRL Radio Amateur's Handbook
1934		 The Standard Radio Guide
from
Popular Science
1922		 Reflex Radio Receivers
from Experimenter's Library collection.
1924 boolet
Technical Booklets and Magazines
Experimental Electricity Course
Gernsback
1916		 Popular Science
 June, 1946
Cover story about advances in television		    
Radio for the Millions
Radio for the Millions
Popular Science
1943		 Popular Science's
Radio for the Millions
1945 (2nd Printing) 		   
Radio Flash
Radio Flash
1922 
Constructor Diagrams		 Radio Flash
1923
Constructor Diagrams		    
Popular Science Radio Annual
Popular Science Radio Guide
1922		 Popular Science Third Radio Annual 1934 
(1946 ¨Printing)		 Popular Science Radio Annual
1943
Popular Science Radio Annual
Second Edition
1943		 Popular Science Radio and Television Annual
1950		 Popular Science Television and Radio Manual
1951
Amateur Radio / Ham Radio
R9
A magazine of Amateur and experimental radio
October 1934		 R9
A magazine of Amateur and experimental radio
December 1935		 R9
A magazine of Amateur and experimental radio
February 1933
Magazines - Partial Collections
Not enough for dedicated Page)
Television
U.S. Edition
 1928 Vol 1 No 2
Early TV magazine.		 Radio Amateur Magazine
Do it yourself projects. December 1953		 Radio Flash
1922 first edition of a planned series of radio set construction projects.
Everybody's Radio
November, 1924 issue of the Chicago-based  magazine 		Wireless and Television Review
 April 1935		 News and Digest
 Magazine from 1934.
Watt News
1937 issue of a ham radio magazine		        
Technology: Circuits, devices and construction
Radio Manual
From "The Sun" and "The Globe" in New York.
Mid-summer 1923		  The ABCs of Radio from General Electric
1943
Electrical Merchandising
July 1930
"The Business Magazine of the Electrical Trade" 		Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia from Electro Importing.
1918
(See 1915 edition below)		 Dunlap's Radio Manual
1924 guide to early radio technology
Behind the Front Panel
The Design &
Development of
192C's Radios		 Current Ideas
Radio and Science magazine
January 1927		 Radiokes Super-heterodyne 6
Assemble-it-Yourself radio instructions.
The Romance and Reality of Television
From the maker of Baird TV sets
1930		 Radio Construction for the Amateur
Merle Duston
Construction, antennas, batteries.
1925		 Everybody's Radio Manual
1943
Popular Science
Gilbert Radio Telephone and Broadcasting
1922		 CeCo
Vacuum Tubes
company from Rhode Island		 RCA Victor 1935 radio set dealer campaign booklet.
Modern Radio
Theory and design. Two issues from 1930 and 1931		 The Experimenters Library #13
Reflex Radio Receivers		    IRE "Radio Pioneers" 1945
 Innovators and benchmarks since the beginning of radio
The Technician
Two issues from 12/33 and 1/34 of this magazine		 The 40 Year March of Radio
A 1943 Newcomen Address		 The P.W.
Crystal Experimenter's Hanbook
1925
Radio AC Hookups
Blueprint Library
1929		 Wireless Really Explained
20's short book		 Simplicity of Radio by Powel Crosley
General Electric's
"ABCs of Radio"
Simple explanation of technology 		What to Build
By Alden Manufacturing
c. 1922		   100 Radio Hook-ups
 EICO
1924 
Radio Manual
From "The Sun" and "The Globe" in New York.
Mid-summer 1923		 Radio Construction for the Amateur
 Merle Duston
Construction, antennas, batteries.
1925		 Coyne's Shop Prints and Wiring Diagrams
1946
Philco
1934
Schematics		 IEEE Standards on Radio & TV Receivers
AM, FM and TV
40's and 50's		   Mallory Service Encyclopedia
 6 Volumes
1937-1946
Radio Amateur's Handbook
for amateur high frequency radio.
1934		 Graybar Manuals
from 1929		 Pacific Radio Exposition
Program
1924
Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia
1918		 Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia
1922 		20 Radiophone Diagrams  
1927
Radio Set & Parts Manufacturers and Resellers
RCA's 1937
America's First Television Tour		 ABC's of Radio
Booklet from General Electric from 1940		 Cunningham Tubes Brochure ca. 1932.
"Don't buy a new radio, just replace the tubes" was a boon for those in the depression-era.
Philco News
An issue from August 1945		 Philco News
Two issues from 1931		 Philco: Autobiography of Progress
1954
Philco
 Diagrams and Parts
1934		 General Electric
1924 Publicity and Promotion plan.		 Westinghouse
 1930 Set Service Data
Majestic Voice of the Air
Several undated issues from the early 30's		 Voice of Majestic
Several early 30's issues		 Cunningham Radio Tubes Manual
1932
Hammarlund & Short Wave Catalogs & Publications
Hammarlund Short-Wave Manual
1929		 Hammarlund Short-Wave Manual
1935		 Hammarlund Short-Wave Manual
1936
Hammarlund Short-Wave Manual
1938		 Hammarlund Short-Wave Manual
1940		 How to Build 4 Doerle Short Wave Sets
Hallicrafters
SX-16
Brochure dated 1937		        
Society of Wireless Pioneers
via California Radio Historical Society
Hallicrafters Presents
Communications Receivers.		 Radio Dealer's Guide
1931 sales brochure.		 1906 Marconi Company stock offering. Full prospectus.
SC-II 5-Tube receiver building instructions from
1927 		Universal Microphone catalog 1933 Radiola
Data Sheet
1924
Tom Thumb Screen Grid Portable Radio
(Date Unknown)