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Book recommendations for the holidays?
BreakingOhmsLaw:
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!
jasonRF:
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.
jason
jonpaul:
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!
Jon
Benta:
"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.
MikeK:
"The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder. It's about computers, but a good read.
From wiki:
--- Quote ---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.
--- End quote ---
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