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Was Don Lancaster really a "guru"?
Bassman59:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on December 06, 2018, 06:50:02 pm ---There are many that have been in print that long, though I agree, I can't think of any that close to the component level that have survived.
Examples of long term survivors.
Fields and Waves in Communications Electronics by Ramo, Whinnery and Van Duzer. First published in 1965. Current price is almost 15 times what I paid in the early seventies.
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That book was the text for a graduate course in Microwave Electronics I took in 1989. Van Duzer was not involved then!
--- Quote ---On the theory side, once someone hits a home run it tends to last a long, long time.
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Especially if the theory doesn't change!
Bassman59:
--- Quote from: bd139 on December 06, 2018, 07:52:10 pm ---:-DD I actually read that (Dianetics) once. Mein Kampf was less retarded.
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Mighty low standard, this.
T3sl4co1l:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on December 06, 2018, 06:50:02 pm ---Handbook of Mathematical Functions. Abramowitz and Stegun. First published in 1964. A bit of cheat since it is now a Dover reprint.
Introduction to the Theory of Random Signals and Noise. Davenport and Root. First published in 1958.
I know of several others and suspect there are many more. Things like Feynman's lectures (maybe not exactly electronics), and Donald Knuth's series.
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Don't forget RAND's One Million Random Digits, truly a spellbinding epic. ;D
Tim
rhb:
I have a lot of stuff that is almost a hundred years old and still in print. My point was a general device level electronics book in print for that long is very rare.
The King James Bible is still in print 400 years later. So are Sir Isaac Newton's works. And in the field of literature there are thousands of works which are still in print a two thousand years later. Cicero, Virgil, Caesar's s "Gallic Wars" was the standard 1st and 2nd year Latin text when I took Latin and then there are all the Greek works which are even older.
CatalinaWOW:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on December 06, 2018, 08:06:45 pm ---
Fields and Waves in Communications Electronics by Ramo, Whinnery and Van Duzer. First published in 1965. Current price is almost 15 times what I paid in the early seventies.
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That book was the text for a graduate course in Microwave Electronics I took in 1989. Van Duzer was not involved then!
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You must have purchased an old copy. Mine was purchased in 1971-1972 and Van Duzer is printed right in the cover and fronts piece. In the preface it notes that it is based on the earlier work "Fields and Waves in Modern Radio" by Ramo and Whinnery in 1944. If you treat that string as one book it is a technical book that has been in print for 84 years.
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