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Offline BreakingOhmsLawTopic starter

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Book recommendations for the holidays?
« on: December 10, 2022, 12:09:19 pm »
Hey folks,

With some time off coming up during the holidays, and projects stalled due to missing parts, I want to hear your recommendations for electronics related books. Anything around history, personalities, biographies, anything except pure text books. Something that you would read for pleasure rather than knowledge.
Cheers!
 

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Re: Book recommendations for the holidays?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2022, 06:09:19 pm »
As a fan of electromagnetic theory, I really enjoyed

Faraday, Maxwell and the electromagnetic field by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon

The Maxwellians by Bruce Hunt

Oliver Heaviside 2nd edition by Paul Nahin

The last one is a little harder to read than the others.  Paul Nahin is a retired EE professor, and I have enjoyed several of his books, although they mostly are not about electronics. 

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Re: Book recommendations for the holidays?
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2022, 06:57:54 pm »
Wow, great idea,

Inventors, Scientist and engineers biographie

Tesla, Edison, Steinmetz, Shannon

Nuclear...Teller, Fermi, Curie, Lawrence, Oppenheimer

Story of the great electronics industry giants, Hewlett Packard, Tektronix, Bell Laboratoires, Apple

David Kahn's landmark 1967 "the Codebreakers"

just a start!

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Re: Book recommendations for the holidays?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2022, 08:21:29 pm »
"KELLY: More than my share of it all"
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson with Maggie Smith.

Autobiography by the former boss of the legendary Lockheed "Skunk Works". Somewhat anecdotal and self-centered, but with a lot of technical (and political) stuff.
A good read.
 

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Re: Book recommendations for the holidays?
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2022, 09:28:01 pm »
"The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.  It's about computers, but a good read.

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It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure. The machine was launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000.
 
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Re: Book recommendations for the holidays?
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2022, 08:44:44 am »
You may enjoy reading this chapter:

Chapter 1 - A microhistory of microwave technology
https://assets.cambridge.org/052183/5267/sample/0521835267ws.pdf
from the book Planar Microwave Engineering by Thomas H. Lee

It's a free sample and the opening chapter of the book.  The book is very good, though the rest of it is mostly a microwave textbook.
 
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Re: Book recommendations for the holidays?
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2022, 09:32:35 am »
I got "The Soul of a New Machine" for Christmas one year. I started reading it the morning of New Year's Day and basically couldn't put it down until finished. Another book that did that to me was "Angle of Attack" by Mike Gray. It tells the story of Harrison Storms, North American Aviation, and the Apollo program. It's absolutely a must read if you are at all a fan of space exploration and/or the Apollo program.
 


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