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To: elmatador who wrote (53939)8/23/2009 3:47:30 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (3) of 217822
 
>>Before that I learned electricity using Van Valkenburgh "Basic Electricity" books. The US Navy started putting electric and electronic system inside the ships in WWII. The sailors needed a crash course to install, maintain and operate the gear. Van Valkenburgh "Basic Electricity" books were used to train them.<<

My high school library had some US Navy electronics books. I studied them and learned about resistors, diodes, capacitors, transformers, and transistors, etc. Then I built a few small projects from scratch, including a transistor radio.

The world was moving from vacuum tubes to "solid state" electronics then, and the potential seemed unlimited.
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