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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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