"the Boy Electrician" PDF - A very old book of electrical experiments

[cdev]

I have wanted this book for years ever since I saw it in a truly great used bookstore in Mountain View, CA. (just a stones throw from NASA Ames Research Center) a store that was really unique, I realize, sort of a Mecca for used technical books needing good homes, and which tragically, no longer exists.

Foolishly, I didn't buy it.

http://www.tayloredge.com/museum/museum/TheBoyElectrician.pdf

[tggzzz]

That's one version; there are quite a few. Somewhere I have one from the 1930s, plus another very similar book with, IIRC, a different title.

Amazon is your friend.

[TerraHertz]

There are reprints available.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=Alfred+P+Morgan&tn=the+boy+electrician&kn=&isbn=

No idea what the quality is like. But it can't be worse than that pdf. Urrgh. Random skew, miserably poor saturation, specks galore, encoded in lo-res JPG with all its artefacts... no fun to read at all. Just another example of incompetent scanning.

Such a shame, the book is interesting.
Here's an illustration that deserves to be on 'show us your workbench'.

[Electro Detective]

Picture above looked like a DJ    , spinning mindless monotonous racket masquerading as music today.. 

thankfully not!!!   

[BradC]

No idea what the quality is like. But it can't be worse than that pdf. Urrgh. Random skew, miserably poor saturation, specks galore, encoded in lo-res JPG with all its artefacts... no fun to read at all. Just another example of incompetent scanning.

Agree on the scanning, but it's better than a number of scanned Textronix manuals I have (even one published by Tek themselves!)

[Kjelt]

Foolishly, I didn't buy it. 

There are multiple originals from different decades for sale on Ebay.

[Electro Detective]

The PDF is very readable and the right price   

There's enough quality there to do a makeover if anyone wants to play with a PDF Editor, to pump up some contrast and tilt a few pages etc

Thanks cdev