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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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The ABC of Radio Battery Life
Eveready
1937
 Short Wave Radio-Manual
1934
(Reprint)		 Radio Amateur News
April 1937 first issue of this ham raio magazine.
Practical Mechanic's "ABC of Television"
1927		 One issue of 
"The Broadcast Receiver"
from 1924		 American Radio Relay League
1925 Convention in Chicago
Program.
Boston Transcript's
Radio Handbook
1924 December
Station lists and basic electronics		 Radio Receiving for Beginners
Snodgrass
Short book for early radio users from 1922		 The Home Radio and How to Make It
Verrill
1922
Practical Electrics
from Universal Handy Books 1907
Phones, phonographs, microphones.		 Diagnotrician Service monthly
November 1929 issue		 Efficient Radio Sets
Winger, Johnson & Smith
Technical Books & Booklets
Experimental Electricity Course
Gernsback
1916		 Everybody's Radio Manual
1943
Popular Science		 ABC's of Radio
Booklet from General Electric from 1940
Behind the Front Panel
The Design &
Development of
192C's Radios		 The Romance and Reality of Television
From the maker of Baird TV sets
1930		    
Radio for the Millions
Radio for the Millions
Popular Science
1943		 Popular Science's
Radio for the Millions
1945 (2nd Printing) 		Mullard Radio for the Million
Supplement
three Valve receiver
Radio Flash
Radio Flash
1922 
Constructor Diagrams		 Radio Flash
1923
Constructor Diagrams		    
Popular Science Radio Annual
The Standard Radio Guide
from
Popular Science
1922
(Copy two) 		       
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
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		 Electrical Merchandising
July 1930
"The Business Magazine of the Electrical Trade" 		Current Ideas
Radio and Science magazine
January 1927
QST War Number
May 1917 issue proclaiming the prohibition of amateur radio during The Great War.		 R/9
Early Amateur and constructor magazine
October 1932		 Popular Science
 June, 1946
Cover story about advances in television
Master Servicing
Partial copy of the March 1938 in-depth service shop magazine.		 The Radiobuilder
Two issues from 1930		    
Hobbyist Construction Projects
Radio Receivers and How to Build Them
1923 edition by two Milwaukee newspapers		 Radiokes Super-heterodyne 6
Assemble-it-Yourself radio instructions. 		Alden's "What to Build"
Vol II Number 1
Several simple radios at low cost.
Burgess
Baby Radio Transmitter
1928		        
Hobbyist "Learning Electronics & Training"
The Wireless Experimenters Manual
1920 book of practical electronics		 Radio Servicing Course
Radio Technical Institute
1938		 Amateur Radio
A 1922 hobbyist book by Grainger, a former Westinghouse engineer
Radio Construction for the Amateur
Merle Duston
Construction, antennas, batteries.
1925		        
Hobbyist "Use of Equipment & Test Gear."
Radio Manual
From "The Sun" and "The Globe" in New York.
Mid-summer 1923		 Ghirardi Home Radio Pocket Troubleshooter
1937		 How to Tune Your Radio Set
Muhleman & Radio News Staff
1924
Technology: Circuits, Parts & Devices
Arts & Sciences #6
Experimental Wireless Construction		  The ABCs of Radio from General Electric
1943		 All About Radio Parts
Radio News Staff
1924
IEEE Standards on Radio & TV Receivers
AM, FM and TV
40's and 50's		 Mallory Service Encyclopedia
 6 Volumes
1937-1946		 Reflex Radio Receivers
from Experimenter's Library collection.
1924 booklet
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
Radio Broadcast's Data Sheet
Series Two 		20 Radiophone Diagrams  
1927		 Pacific Radio Exposition
Program
1924
Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia
1918		 Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia
1922 		   
Radio and Parts Resellers
The MacrORadio News
1930 		 Wireless & Electrical Cyclopedia from Electro Importing.
1918
(See 1915 edition below)		    
Radio Set & Parts Manufacturers
Graybar Manuals
for radio sets 1929		 Philco
1934
Schematics		 Grunow Radio
Chasis Type 9-A
Technical specifications from 1937
General Electric Instruments
Principles of Operation		 The Daven Resistor Manual
1925
 Crosley Service Bulletin
Receivers 122, 123 and 124
General Electric
Switching Equipment
Catalog and deep description.		 Simpson Roto Ranger
Scan of a 24" by 36" fold-out giant brochure. 		Service Hints
from Hygrade Sylvania 1933
RCA's 1937
America's First Television Tour		     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
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)