Subject: GLOWBUGS digest 95

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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 10:33:13 -0600 (CST)

GLOWBUGS Digest 95

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Books by Alfred P. Morgan
	by [email-masked]

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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 18:02:58 -0500
From: [email-masked]
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Subject: Books by Alfred P. Morgan
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Recent messages about Boys' Book of this and that by Alfred P. Morgan revived
my childhood memories. A check of the local (Monroe County NY) library system
showed 18 books by Morgan, who died in 1972, still in their collection. A
quick trip to the local branch got me the Second and Third Book of Radio and
Electronics. I put a reserve on the First Book - it was actually out !

For those who would like a nostalgia trip, the following are the Tables of
Contents of these books.

AUTHOR(s):       Morgan, Alfred Powell  1889-1972  
TITLE(s):        The boys' second book of radio and electronics
With diagrs. by the author.                                     
                 New York,  Scribner  [1957]  
                 276 p.  illus.  22 cm.  

The Boy's Second Book of Radio and Electronics by Alfred Morgan (1957)

Foreword by Brig. General David Sarnoff

1. An Adventure in Science

2. Building Your First Radio Receiver
	Germanium Semi-conductors

3. How to Build a More Selective Crystal Receiver

4. Taking the Mystery out of Tuning

5. A Simple Outdoor Receiving Antenna

6. Components and Electronic Circuits 
	Capacitors and Capacitance, Resistors and Controls

7. Transducers - Components of an Electronic Circuit
	Earphones, loudspeakers, microphones and pickups

8. Transistors - Versatile Midgets Which Can Do the Work of Vacuum Tubes

9. Transistor Apparatus Which You Can Build
	A one-stage audio amplifier
	A combination crystal diode and transistor radio receiver
	A transistor timer switch
	A transistor code practice oscillator
	Learning to telegraph

10. About Radio Tubes

11. Introduction to Amplifiers

12 The Photocells and Phototubes Which Are Popularly Called Electric Eyes
	How to build a phototube relay

13. Prospecting for Uranium
	Radioactivity
	Geigerscopes
	Geiger Counters
	Scintillometers
	How to make a Geiger Counter

14. How to Build a Two-stage Audio Amplifier

15. How Phonograph Records are Made
	Build your own record player
	You can play records with the amplifier in a radio receiver
	How to build the Hush-a-Tune
	Repairs and adjustments to loudspeakers

16. Electron Tubes as Oscillators and Some of Their Uses
	Capacity Relays
	You can build a capacity relay
	Fun with a capacity relay

17. How to Build and Operate a Miniature Home Broadcasting Station

Where to Obtain Materials
AUTHOR(s):       Morgan, Alfred Powell,  1889-1972  
TITLE(s):        The boy's third book of radio and electronics
With diagrs. by the author.                                     
                 New York,  Scribner  [1962]  
                 277 p.  illus.  22 cm.  

The Boys' Third Book of Radio and Electronics by Alfred Morgan (1962)

1. An Introduction to Electricity
	Electronics defined. Some of the terms used in Electrical science and
Electronics. 
	The nature of electricity. The Volt , Ampere and Watt. Resistance and Ohm's
Law.

2. Inductance, Impedance, Capacitance, and other Qualities of Electric
Circuits Which 
You should Know About
	Electricity creates magnetism. Tuning a radio circuit. Transformers. An
experiment 
	with electromagnetic induction. An experiment demonstrating the principle of
the 
	transformer.

3. Some of the Components Which Comprise Electronic Circuits
	Resistors. Capacitors. Transducers. Headphones. Speakers. Loopsticks.

4. Electron Tubes - Their Purpose - How They Were Developed - How They
Function
	The Edison Effect. The Fleming Valve. Electron emission. The diode. The
triode. 
	Tetrodes. Pentodes. Multi-unit tubes.

5. The Transistor - What It Is - What It Does - How It Works
	Semiconductors. Power Transistors. Sockets and mounts for transistors. Heat 
	sinks.

6. Radio Communications and Electromagnetic Waves
	Oscillators. Modulation. What a radio receiver is and how it performs.
Selectivity. 
	A basic radio receiver.

7. Four Simple, Practical Radio Receivers - How To Build and Operate Them
	Circuit diagrams. Symbols. A radio receiver with a crystal-diode detector. A
radio 
	receiver with a vacuum tube detector. A radio receiver with a grid-leak
detector. A 
	radio receiver with a transistor detector.

8. Outdoor Antennas for the Receivers
	Lightning arrestors. Earth connection.

9. Audio Amplifiers You Can Build
	Electron tubes. Transistors as amplifiers. A transistor audio amplifier. A 
	transistorized power megaphone. A two-stage vacuum tube amplifier for a
record 
	player. A 5 Watt push-pull high-fidelity amplifier.

10. You Can Make a Portable Record Player

11. Music From Transistors - The Construction of a Toy Electronic Organ

12. A High-Fidelity Sound System
	Sound. The construction of a bass reflex speaker enclosure. Connecting the
player, 
	amplifier and speaker.

13. A Home Intercom System

14. An Opportunity to be Your Own Technician and Electronics Engineer
	A sun battery will operate a radio receiver. A sensitive "electric eye" or
photo 
	relay. Code practice oscillator. Simple diode receiver with diode detector
and one-
	stage audio amplifier. A vest pocket receiver with two-stage audio
amplifier.

Where to Obtain Materials

73,  Jack W2STM

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