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- From: jasa@dalton.inesc.pt (Jose Antonio Soares Augusto)
- Subject: Some Books about VACUMM TUBES
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:12:04 GMT
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- Soemeone asked info about books on the subject Vacuum Tubes (VT). Here
- are some I own or know:
-
- ARRL Handbook (1990 ed. I think): Has some information on VT but is very
- concentrated. However is an excellent pratical book. The tube
- applications are directed mainly to RF transmitters and Receivers, not
- to Audio Applications (my main interest...).
-
- Millman: "Vacuum-Tube and Semiconductor Electronics", McGraw-Hill, (
- from late fifties). Has a very good coverage on VT theory and
- applications. I bought my copy recently, an ISE edition (in Portugal)
- very cheap, forgotten in a library shelf :-). I think it is, perhaps,
- the one I would recomend to buy, if it was available.
-
- Millman and Halkias: "Electronic Devices and Circuits", McGraw-Hill,
- (1967). I think the ISE edition is still sold. This book has 4 or five
- chapters about VT physics and applications, but less than the former
- Millman book.
-
- Spangenberg:"Fundamentals of electron devices", McGraw-Hill (late
- fifties?). Very good coverage of device physics, short of
- applications, but valuable (I bought my copy reasonably cheap recently...).
-
-
- Ryder:"Engineering Electronics", McGraw-Hill (sixties): treats
- semiconductor and VT physics and applications with emphasis on the
- first type. A good book with informetion on subjects hardly found in
- others (induction heating, capacitor and inductor filtering in diode
- rectifiers...).
-
-
- Hazen:"Exploring Electronic Devices", Saunders College (1991). The
- only recent electronics book I'm aware that considers the subject. It
- has a chapter (19th) called "High Power Vacuum Devices in a
- Solid-State World" with about 50 pages, well written and with good
- explanation.
-
- Other books have short chapters on VT (Gray and Searle "Electronic
- Principles" from John Wiley, for example).
-
- NOTE: I do not represent any of the Book Editors. The fact that those cited
- are mainly from McGraw-Hill is because in Portugal this is the only
- house with a local office in Lisbon. So, their books are available in
- the librarys (inclusive the old ISE editions I cited).
-
- J. Augusto
-
-