From my collection. What can you add here?

only that even that much is not prerequisite here

Hey that's the book I used!

Thomas Edison then and Tony Robbins now? The become-a-millionaire-electrician “Good Life” a century ago is like the current promise of cashing in on real estate by simply buying a newspaper and leveraging a couple of credit cards.

Somehow I can’t imagine infotainment on sandwich boards and silent movies.

Web was from spiders, not geeks on Jolt Cola and Doritos.

all those sparks and lightning bolts on the cover scares me!


ron

Did someone buy that from Sally Struthers' great grandmother?

Available for only three easy payments of only 5 cents!!

aw shucks! i thought it was in 3 payments of a penny ea.oh well back to work i go

It was probably 2-3 bucks, but then, that money bought a number of loaves or bread.

I just checked, and this book cost $1.00 in 1901.

It really is not what you think.

I will take some pictures of the content pages so you can get an idea of what I mean.

Hate to see the Companion Series:

"How To Become An Electrical Quack"

Or the one which must have been read by a lot of jokers I've had the misfortune to deal with when they find out I have some EE skills:

"How To Become An Eee-lekk-trik-ule In-jun-ear In 6 Easy Lessons"

On a serious note, does the Book have fair relavent value?

I have a few circa 1920's Manuals which are fairly informative! One for Electrical Power systems [covers the 3 wire DC systems quite well] and one for Radio [Even gets AM...joke]


Scott S.E.T.

A lot of older text books put modern versions to shame in many respects.

I have a two-volume set "Telephony," published in 1948. They were considered for many years (decades) the definitive works on the technicalities of the British telephone system. In fact I only just recently acquired my own copies and had to pay £32 ($48) to get them! I have a similar volume which I've had for years which covers the British telex system.

I don't think there are any books to rival them these days for their in-depth coverage of audio transmission, relay design, etc.

I have my grandfathers books he got when He hired onto the railroad on the catenary gang in 1932. They put a lot of newer stuff to shame in the way they describe how things work, and why it's done that way.
Trainwire