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Report itemPeter Millett's Audio Website www.pmillett.com NOW AVAILABLE ON A 4GB FLASH DRIVE SIMILIAR TO THE ONE SHOWN Includes updates to the site from 2008 and 2009 I will make sure YOUR copy is updated before shipping it! Includes FOXIT fast pdf reader copyrighted sams material has been removed with our apologies FREE SHIPPING FOR DVD VERSION PLEASE CLICK THE PICTURE BELOW
This DVD has been updated to contain website updates by Peter. Peter Millett has without a doubt the most comprehensive audio hobbyist / electronic hobbyist website on the internet. With over 2 GB of information, it is a vast wealth of information and inspiration. There are excellent scans of many books that are impossible to find now. In addition, there is a wealth of information regarding tubes, including spec sheets and complete tube manuals. For many of you, I know it is difficult to download such a lot of information. And so, I am offering the complete website on DVD. It works just like Peter's does, all the links and downloads, but you can access everything without being connected to the internet! Take it with you on a business trip to browse on the plane, or into the bathroom in the hotel room while the wife watches her soap. When I asked Peter if he would authorize my use of this material, his response was clear: Sure, you have my permission. My intent has been to get the info to those who need it, and I have been asked quite a few times for a CD/DVD of the data (mostly the books). My interest is twofold. First, I, as Peter, would like to see this information as widely available as possible. Secondly, I would like to offer it as a way to bring my eBay store to the attention of a wider enthusiast base. So browse Peter's website, and please, have a look at my store. Then order your own copy on a 4gb flash drive. It is complete, every file, every link, identical to Peter's site as of the above date. PLEASE VISIT MY EBAY STORE The Oscilloscope Store at
PARTIAL LIST ONLY OF THE WEBSITE / DRIVE CONTENT For books containing primarily tube data, like Sylvania, GE, and RCA tube manuals, see the tube data page. Alphabetical, by title...
Click on the name of the title to download an introduction (the first few pages, usually the title through table of contents) This way you can see if you're interested before downloading many megabytes of data.
Amplifier Builders Guide, Hugo Gernsback, 1964, 254 pages From the editors of Radiocraft, this practical guide concentrates on the design and construction of audio amplifiers. Two parts: the first on amplifier theory and design, the second giving six practical designs to build. Talks about phase splitters, feedback, and tone controls, things not addressed in most textbooks.
Download full text with index, 32MB PDF file Amplifiers, H. Lewis York, 1947, 64 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! This UK book is one of a series on "The Technique of Sound Reproduction". It's a good practical guide to the design of amplifiers, with many example schematics using the GEC and Mullard valves of the time. Great book for a reasonably short introduction to tube amp design for the non-engineer.
Download full text with index, 3.3MB PDF file An Approach to Audio Frequency Amplifier Design, G. E. C. Valve and Electronics Department, 1957, 126 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! We've all seen the classic GEC amp schematics, but here's the whole book! Seventeen amplifier designs ranging from 3 to 1,100 watts are presented, along with tube data and design considerations.
Download full text with index, 1.9MB PDF file NEW 9/2/06 - Antennas, John D. Kraus, Ph.D.., 1950, 553 pages - Thanks to Ed Stewart, WA4MZS! This book is a college text and engineering reference on antennas. A pretty thorough theoretical treatment along with practical information on antenna design.
Download full text, 7.9MB PDF file Audels Radiomans Guide, Edwin P. Anderson, 1945, 880 pages An odd book, about 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" and a whopping 880 pages, "covering theory, construction, and servicing including television electronics". It covers everything from sounds waves through basic electronics, PA systems (including a little info on a WE theatre amp), transmitters, car and aircraft radio, troubleshooting - you name it, it's in here. Not a college text, this looks like it could be a handbook for the radio technician or advanced hobbyist of the 1940's. Lots of good vintage info!
Download full text with index, CAUTION LARGE 41MB PDF file Basic Audio, Norman Crowhurst, 1959 - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! This is a 3-volume set on, as the title implies, basic audio. The best introduction to tube hi-fi I've seen, the first volume starts with the nature of sound, and covers the basics of speakers and microphones. Volume 2 continues with amplification, covering the basics of amplifier design. Volume 3 covers a little more advanced topics like feedback, power supplies, and recording. If you're a beginner, READ THESE BOOKS!
Volume 1 (114 pages) Download full text with index, 4.2MB PDF file Volume 2 (122 pages) Download full text with index, 4.1MB PDF file Volume 3 (113 pages) Download full text with index, 3.2MB PDF file Basic Radio - The Essentials of Electron tubes and their Circuits, J. Barton Hoag, 1942, 379 pages Another college-level electronics text, this one is "designed for the student with only a limited background in physics and mathematics". Covers the basics of AC and DC circuits and radio propagation, then vacuum tubes and circuits that use them. Has some information not found on other texts, like high-frequency and microwave radio, transmission line theory, and DC amplifiers. Another good text!
Download full text with index, 15MB PDF file Basic Theory and Applications of Electron Tubes, Departments of the Army and Air Force, 1952, 215 pages This is an excellent, relatively modern (1952) text on vacuum tubes. Very practical, not too much math, and it has some very nice illustrations. Very specific to tubes, discusses how they work, how they're built, and circuits.
Download full text with index, 17MB PDF file The Cathode-ray tube at Work, John F. Rider, 1935, 336 pages Not obvious until you realize this book pre-dates television, this is really a book about the oscilloscope (called an "oscillograph" back then). Talks about how CRT's work, how an oscilloscope works, and how to use an oscilloscope to troubleshoot circuits like amplifiers, and to adjust radio transmitters and receivers.
Download full text with index, 17MB PDF file Coyne Electrical and Radio Trouble Shooting Manual, Coyne Electrical School, 1946, 612 pages This funky old book is far from an engineering text - rather, it's a bible for the Mr. Fixit of the 1940's. Light on theory with lots of diagrams, covers electrical wiring, AC and DC motors and generators, refrigeration, automotive electricity, and radio troubleshooting and repair. Not particularly well formatted or printed, it's a lot of thrown-together info. This is not a great book for tube design, but could be useful for the old radio diagrams, or if you have a 1940's Ford V8 with ignition problems.... The best part to me is the electrical dictionary at the end (available to download by itself).
Download full text with index, CAUTION LARGE 41MB PDF file Download the electrical dictionary, 3.7MB PDF file Dynamical Analogies, Harry F. Olson, 1943, 190 pages - Courtesy of John Atwood This interesting book draws technically accurate analogies between electrical, acoustical, and mechanical systems.
Download full text, 11MB PDF file Electrical Engineering, E. E. Kimberly, 1951, 394 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! A different college EE text, this one is target at non-EE majors. Less theory than most EE texts, and lots of information about motors. I think this was targeted largely at Civil, Industrial, and Mechanical engineers. Only one chapter on "electronic" devices (tubes and tube circuits).
Download full text with index, 5.8MB PDF file Electron-Tube Circuits, Samuel Seely, 1950, 530 pages Another college-level textbook on vacuum tubes. Covers tube theory, tuned and un-tuned amplifiers, oscillators, and power supplies. Some nice details about tube-based voltage regulator circuits, and sections on electronic computing circuits, relaxation oscillators and sweep circuits you won't find in the other texts.
Download full text with index, 22MB PDF file Electron Tube Design, RCA, 1963, 943 (!!) pages - Courtesy of John Atwood This is essentially an updated version of "Vacuum Tube Design" below. Intended for internal use only, this book contains 53 "articles" on different aspects of vacuum tube design and manufacture. I think this book has nearly everything you need to know to design and build tubes. Beware, the PDF file is over 150 megabytes! Don't even try it on dialup...
Download full text, CAUTION ***HUGE*** 151MB PDF file Electron Tubes in Industry, Keith Henney and James Fahnestock, 1952, 353 pages A cool book that concentrates on industrial applications of vacuum tubes, as opposed to radio and audio use. Lots of info on thyratron and phototube circuits, as well as process control applications.
Download full text, 3.7MB PDF file Electronic Amplifier Circuits, Joseph Petit and Malcolm McWhorter, 1961, 325 pages As you might guess from the title, this textbook is all about the theory and design of amplifiers. While mostly containing tube circuits it does include some information on those new-fangled transistor things. Plenty if math in this one, it concentrates on wide band (e.g., video) amplifiers.
Download full text with index, 13MB PDF file Electronic Circuits and Tubes, Cruft Laboratory at Harvard University, 1947, 994 pages - Courtesy of Jim McConville This is one of the most comprehensive texts in the collection. According to the forward, the book was developed from the lecture notes of a special wartime electronics training course. A reasonably mathematical treatment of basic circuit theory, vacuum tubes, and practical circuits.
Download full text with index, 12MB PDF file Electronic Transformers and Circuits, Reuben Lee, 1955, 349 pages - Courtesy of John Atwood This book is a "reference on the design of transformers and electronic apparatus". It covers the design of power transformers, chokes, and signal (audio) transformers. It also talks a bit about circuitry, as it relates to transformers. Enough theory to understand what's going on, as well as practical info on how to construct transformers.
Download full text, 24MB PDF file- Engineering Electronics, George Happell and Wilfred Hesselberth, 1953, 508 pages - Courtesy of Earles McCaul This is a newer college text, covering vacuum tubes, circuit analysis, and some practical amplifier design considerations. More practical than some texts, it even includes some tube curves for popular tubes of the day.
Download full text with index, 7MB PDF file NEW 9/2/06 - Fundamentals of Transistors, Leonard Krugman, 1954, 140 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! Yet another introduction to transistors targeted at "the technician and amateur". Shows basic transistor circuits.
Download full text, 2.1MB PDF file Grondslagen van de Radiobuizentechniek, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken te Einhioven, 1943, 505 pages - Courtesy of John Atwood Wow... I wish I could read Dutch. This book by Philips appears to be a nice thorough treatment of how vacuum tubes work, how they are built, and how they are applied in radio circuits. Some very nice photos of tubes in various states of disassembly.
Download full text, CAUTION LARGE 46MB PDF file High-Fidelity Circuit Design, Norman Crowhurst and George Cooper, 1957, 296 pages - Courtesy of John Atwood The title pretty much says it all here.. this is a practical guide to the design of audio circuits.
Download full text, 21MB PDF file\ NEW 9/2/06 - How To Service Tape Recorders, C. A. Tuthill, 1954, 154 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! This is a good book on how to work on late fifties-vintage tape recorders. Includes schematics of several models as well as supporting theory.
Download full text, 3.1MB PDF file Inside the Vacuum Tube, John F, Rider, 1945, 407 pages- Courtesy of Earles McCaul One of my new favorites - this is a fabulous book on how tubes work and how to design tube circuits. this is NOT a college text; rather this is written more at the level of an advanced technician, with not so much math and lots of diagrams that make visualizing what's going on easy. It even has some 3-D drawings - you'll need anaglyph (red/blue) 3-D glasses to view them.
Download full text with index, 9MB PDF file NEW 9/2/06 - Know Your Oscilloscope, Paul C. Smith, 1958, 151 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! A good description of how a 'scope works and how to use it. Includes some info on how to service and adjust the instrument. Also covers how to make measurements, and use of the 'scope for amplifier testing and radio/TV alignment.
Download full text, 2.9MB PDF file Magnetic Amplifiers, Paul Mali, 1960, 101 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! Vacuum tubes aren't the only way to make an amplifier? This book is about magnetic amplifiers, which use the nonlinear saturation characteristics of a core to create an amplifier.
Download full text with index, 1.4MB PDF file Magnetic Recording - Wire and Tape, M. L. Quartermaine, 1952, 72 pages An interesting book about the construction of tape and wire recorders. Includes theory and construction details, schematics of record/playback electronics, even info on how to make your own tape heads! Thanks to Paul Reid for the contributed scan!
Download full text with index, 11MB PDF file Oscilloscope Techniques, Alfred Haas, 1958, 224 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! Talks a little bit about how oscilloscopes work, but this is mostly a guide on how to make measurements with a 'scope. Practical examples of measurements made on audio, radio, and TV circuits. Even includes info on how to use a 'scope as a curve tracer for vacuum tubes and semiconductors, and to make swept measurements.
Download full text with index, 3.2MB PDF file Principles of Electricity Applied to Telephone and Telegraph Work, A T &T, 1953, 354 pages This book is "A Training Course Text Prepared for Employees of the Long Lines Department American Telephone and Telegraph Company". "Principles" is a bit of a misnomer - though this book does start out with fundamentals, it quickly dives off into AC circuits, vacuum tubes and amplifiers, and details of telephony. It includes lots of details about telephone and carrier systems, the way they were in the 1950's. Good details about things like how audio transformers work, and the correct way to string telephone wires on a pole!
Download full text with index, CAUTION LARGE 38MB PDF file Principles of Electron Tubes, Herbert Reich, 1941, 398 pages Essentially an abridged version of Reich's "Theory and Applications of Electron Tubes" (below), this is a college-level text on vacuum tubes. It doesn't have so much math in it to be hard to understand; though it presents plenty of equations, it also shows graphical solutions that the DIY'er could use. One of the best books I know of to learn enough about how tubes really work to be able to design with them.
Download full text with index, 18MB PDF file Radio Amateur's Handbook, American Radio relay League, 1936, 536 pages The venerable ARRL handbook, 1936 edition. Many of us learned all about tubes from this book (OK, in my case, one about 30 years later than this one). Practical information on electronic fundamentals and tube circuits, and lots of ham projects - transmitters, receivers, antennas. Cool catalog section at the end.
Download full text with index, CAUTION *VERY* LARGE 55MB PDF file Radio Amateur's Handbook, American Radio relay League, 1941, 552 pages Here's another edition a few years later, full-color catalog at the end.
Download full text with index, CAUTION *VERY* LARGE 79MB PDF file NEW 9/2/06 - Radio and TV Test Instruments, Hugo Gernsback, 1953, 128 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! This cool little book describes how to build your own test equipment. Apparently targeted towards the TV repairman on a budget, it includes everything from VOM and VTVM meters to a DIY Oscilloscope. Fun!
Download full text, 2.6MB PDF file The Radio Handbook, William Orr (editor), 15th edition 1959, 810 (!) pages This is sort of an ARRL handbook on steroids. Very complete, covering basic theory though practical construction of mostly ham radio equipment, though much applies to any vintage electronic project. Has some transistor and semiconductor info but 90% vacuum tube, even a circuit for a tube-based VHF walke-talkie! There are even sections on "high-fidelity techniques" and "electronic computers"! Even includes a math section and info on how to set up your workshop (I like the "workshop-in-a-closet"!)
Download full text with index, CAUTION *VERY* LARGE 61MB PDF file The Radio Handbook, Editors and Engineers, 7th edition 1940, 608 pages An earlier edition of the above Radio Handbook, this has more of the feel of the ARRL handbook of 1940. As you would expect the circuits in this older book use some older tubes, and no mention of semiconductors. There is a section on "radio therapy", if you want to build your own diathermy machine!
Download full text with index, 18MB PDF file Radio Engineering Principles, Henri Lauer and Harry Brown, 2nd edition 1928, 310 pages Here's a book that pre-dates the invention of the pentode... talks about radio theory and propagation, antennas, and telegraphy, then has chapters on the use of the "three-electrode vacuum tube". Talks about how a triode works, and how to use it in amplifier and oscillator circuits and in a radio receiver.
Download full text with index, 13MB PDF file Radio Receivers (AF Manual 100-5), Department of the Air Force, 1958, 175 pages - Courtesy of Chuck McGregor, N7RHU A "training text and guide for repairmen and technicians" by the US air force about radio receivers. A good practical description of receiver design.
Download full text, CAUTION *VERY* LARGE 95MB PDF file Radio Receiver Design (Part 1), K. R. Sturley, 1945, 435 pages - Courtesy of John Atwood This UK publication gives a thorough treatment of the design of valve-based radio receivers. Part 1 covers valve basics, and the RF side of a receiver: from the antenna through the detector.
Download full text, CAUTION LARGE 30MB PDF file Radio Receiver Design (Part 2), K. R. Sturley, 1945, 435 pages - Courtesy of John Atwood A continuation of the above, this volume covers audio-frequency amplifiers, frequency modulation, and television.
Download full text, CAUTION LARGE 38MB PDF file Radiotron Designer's Handbook, Third Edition, P. Langford Smith, 1941, 352 pages The quintessential vacuum tube design handbook,. This is the older, and smaller, third edition... at least I didn't have to pay $150 for a book to cut up and scan! Covers all the essential of tube electronics design, including the basics, tube theory, load lines, amplifier design, etc.
Download full text with index, 16MB PDF file Radiotron Designer's Handbook, Fourth Edition, P. Langford Smith, 1953, 1,498 pages! - MANY thanks to Keith Carlsen! The later and much more comprehensive version of the RDH3 above, this is probably the best book out there for the casual vacuum tube circuit designer. Coveted by the audio guys, it also has plenty of info on the design of radio receivers. This version is one I have scanned myself, in one file, with added nested PDF bookmarks so it's easy to find things. There are PDF versions already floating around the web... but I never figured out who scanned what, and there are a couple of versions that people are trying to sell, so I've not posted any of them here.
Download full text with index, CAUTION LARGE 25MB PDF file The Recording and Reproduction of Sound, Oliver Read, 1952, 790 pages - Courtesy of David Stork Unique in this collection (so far), this book concentrates on the recording process, and to some extent the reproduction process, as opposed to just amplifiers or radios. A fantastic book if you are looking for info on how records were (are?) cut, and how magnetic tape machines work. A very practical book, it includes schematics of many pieces of professional audio of the 1950's. Also contains info about acoustics, loudspeakers and cabinets, and PA system design.
Download full text with index, 16MB PDF file Reference Data For Radio Engineers, Federal Telephone and Radio, 1946, 335 pages This great book is, well, a reference book for engineers! It contains tons of useful data on vacuum-tube circuits, components, power supplies, acoustics, waveforms, radio propagation, and lots of other things. Also includes a lot of mathematical info and tables - even a graphical way to do an FFT! The way we did it before the days of PSpice and silicon...
Download full text with index, 9.4MB PDF file NEW 9/2/06 - Reference Data For Radio Engineers, International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., 1956, 1121 pages - Thanks to Ed Stewart, WA4MZS! A later and greatly expanded version of the book above. A wonderful reference for anybody designing equipment with vacuum tubes. Sections on digital computers, nuclear physics, wire transmission... all kinds of cool things. Plus practical guides for things like power supply design, including how to design and wind the transformers and chokes,
Download full text, 13.5MB PDF file
Television and Radio Repairing, John Markus, 1953, 556 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! Everything you need to know to be a TV/radio repairman, circa 1953. Good practical info for repairing or restoring vintage gear. Light on theory, with plenty of advice on how to repair equipment and replace components using basic test equipment and tools. Even talks about how to start a business doing TV/radio repair.
Download full text with index, 8.3MB PDF file Theory and Applications of Electron tubes, Herbert Reich, 2nd edition 1941, 716 pages If there's one book that will bust my website's bandwidth limits, this may be it. 716 pages of vacuum tube theory, this may be THE best book about vacuum tubes. Detailed, complete with plenty of math and drawings. Covers how tubes work and how to design circuits around them, with chapters on class A/AB1 and AB2/B amplifier design, power supplies, and more!
Download full text with index, CAUTION LARGE 37MB PDF file Theory of Thermionic Vacuum Tubes, E. Leon Chaffee, Ph.D., 1933, 652 pages - Courtesy of Joe Sousa (who actually bought this book and had it delivered to me to scan!) Another fantastic vacuum tube text, with lots of detail and math to go with it. Mostly about triodes, pentodes were just starting to be used when this was written. Covers how tubes work in considerable detail, and discusses low-power amplifiers and detector circuits.
Download full text with index, 7.6MB PDF file NEW 9/2/06 - Transistor Techniques, Gernsback Library (pub.), 1959, 96 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! An early introduction to transistors, basic theory and properties and some example circuits, including a DIY Geiger counter.
Download full text, 1.7MB PDF file NEW 9/2/06 - Transistors, Louis E. Garner, Jr., 1954, 105 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! Another early introduction to transistors, not theoretical, targeted towards the technician. A good introduction to silicon.
Download full text, 1.8MB PDF file NEW 9/2/06 - Troubleshooting with the Oscilloscope, Robert G. Middleton., 1962, 160 pages - Thanks to Keith Carlsen! This book teaches you how to use an oscilloscope. It focuses on TV troubleshooting, but contains good basic info about how to use a 'scope, as well as some info on using it to work on audio and radio equipment.
Download full text, 2.5MB PDF file Vacuum Tube Design, RCA, 1940, 260 pages - Courtesy of John Atwood Intended for internal use only, this book contains a series of 26 lectures in a course taught by RCA engineers in 1937 and 1938. From the preface: "The lectures were intended to provide a review of the basic principles underlying the design and manufacture of vacuum tubes."
Download full text, CAUTION *VERY* LARGE 51MB PDF file
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