
Pl. I.–One of the Lines of Towers at Radio Central
(Courtesy of Radio Corporation of America).
LETTERS OF
A RADIO-ENGINEER
TO HIS SON
BY
JOHN MILLS
Engineering Department, Western Electric Company, Inc.,
Author of “Radio-Communication,” “The Realities of
Modern Science,” and “Within the Atom”

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N. J.
TO
J. M., Jr.
| CONTENTS | ||
| LETTER | PAGE | |
| 1 | Electricity and Matter | 3 |
| 2 | Why a Copper Wire Will Conduct Electricity | 9 |
| 3 | How a Battery Works | 16 |
| 4 | The Batteries in Your Radio Set | 27 |
| 5 | Getting Electrons from a Heated Wire | 34 |
| 6 | The Audion | 40 |
| 7 | How to Measure an Electron Stream | 48 |
| 8 | Electron-Moving-Forces | 57 |
| 9 | The Audion-Characteristic | 66 |
| 10 | Condensers and Coils | 77 |
| 11 | A “C-W” Transmitter | 86 |
| 12 | Inductance and Capacity | 96 |
| 13 | Tuning | 112 |
| 14 | Why and How to Use a Detector | 124 |
| 15 | Radio-Telephony | 140 |
| 16 | The Human Voice | < ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |