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Old Book Teardown #24: Electronic and Radio Engineering (1955) | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video we have a look inside Electronic and Radio Engineering 4ed from the Father of Silicon Valley, Frederick Terman.

We have previously covered the 3rd edition of this book, here: Old Book Teardown #8: Radio Engineering 3rd Edition (1947).

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New Book Teardown #9: Basic Circuit Analysis 2nd Edition (2011) | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video we take a look at what’s inside Basic Circuit Analysis 2nd Edition.

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Old Book Teardown #23: Engineering Electronics with Industrial Applications and Control (1957)

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This video is part of the Old Book Teardown feature of my video blog.

In this video I tear down Engineering Electronics with Industrial Applications and Control by John D. Ryder. This book was published in the USA in 1957. The book comprises 666 pages and is chock full of schematics with old vacuum tubes and photos from old Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes (CROs).

This whole thing is a duplicate, because I already had a look at this back in April 27, 2024. Oh well. Practice makes perfect. :)

In the video I mention about PID controller.

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Old Book Teardown #22: Industrial Electronics Reference Book (1948) | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video we tear down an old book: Industrial Electronics Reference Book by Electronics Engineers of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

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New Book Teardown #8: Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Edition (2013) | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video we take a look inside Electricity and Magnetism 3ed.

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Archer Semiconductor Reference and Application Handbook, 1978 edition (1978)

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In this video we take a look at the Archer Semiconductor Reference and Application Handbook, 1978 edition. This old book from Radio Shack outlines their semiconductor portfolio as it was in 1978.

This book is available online over here: https://archive.org/details/archer-semi-1978-ed

In the video I accidentally skipped over a few pages: 14 and 15 and 40 and 41 and 44 and 45 and 50 and 51.

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Old Book Teardown #20: Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 7 (1999) | In The Lab

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In this video we take a look inside Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 7 by Rudolf F. Graf and William Sheets.

Some circuits of interest included:

Page Circuit
385 DTMF Infrared Transmitter
524 FET Tester
916 Electronic Parrot
925 Voice-Effects Simulator Circuit

And some new terms that we learned were:

  • VFO: Variable-Frequency Oscillator
  • LM3914, LED Driver, similar to LM3915 and LM3916
  • MMIC: Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
  • Balun: balanced to unbalanced; balancing unit
  • NE602: signal processing IC

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Old Book Teardown #19: Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 6 (1995) | In The Lab

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In this video we take a look inside Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 6 by Rudolf F. Graf and William Sheets.

Some circuits of interest included:

Page Circuit
387 Heartbeat Transducer
531 Geiger Counter
663 FM Bug

And some new terms that we learned were:

  • AGC: Automatic Gain Control
  • ALC: Automatic Level Control
  • IF: Intermediate Frequency
  • He: Helium
  • Ne: Neon

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Old Book Teardown #18: Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 5 (1994) | In The Lab

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In this video we take a look inside Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 5 by Rudolf F. Graf and William Sheets.

Some circuits of interest included:

Page Circuit
150 Bug Detector
224 IR Pulse Audio
256 Simple Lie Detector
257 Chapter 49: Light Comms
326 Voice Disguiser
373 Chapter 61: Moisture and Fluid Detectors
554 Speech Scrambler
556 Chapter 93: Sound Effects

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Old Book Teardown #17: Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 4 (1992) | In The Lab

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In this video we take a look inside Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 4 by Rudolf F. Graf and William Sheets.

We noted while going through the book that πP is short for “microprocessor”, or, essentially what we’d just call a CPU these days.

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