Old radio literature.

Radio magazines.

Wireless World.
Volume 1, nr. 1 was published march 1913. The forerunner was The Marconigraph, published by the Marconi Company two years earlier. Wireless World was most of the time a monthly magazine. But in the period 1920 to 21 it came out every second week and from then on every week until 1941, when it became a monthly magazine again.
Read more about Wireless World inthe 60-year jubilee story.

The sister magazine to Wireless World was Experimental Wireless & The Wireless Engineer published from October 1923. In the beginning it was a very interesting magazine and a good supplement to Wireless World. The magazine as such ceased in 1962, when it became a magazine for industrial electronics

Radio Review is a scarce magazine. First issue was published October 1919. Every issue was a little book in A5 size with about fifty pages. From April 1922 it became incorporated in Wireless World.

Handbooks.

RSGB has until now published 6 handbooks for radio amateurs. The first was published in 1938 and is rather rare. The next volumes came out in 1940, 1961, 1968, 1976 and 1994.

DASD, the German radio amateur society before WWII, published in 1931 a handbook for radio amateurs. It was published in second impression in 1935.

ARRL has published a new handbook every year since 1926. It is difficult to find the editions before 1946.

Radio Handbook is another American handbook for radio amateurs. The latest is the 23rd from 1997.

A. Frederick Collins wrote the first British handbook in 1922 and the name was The Radio Amateur’s Handbook. It was published up in the eighties.

Radio Designer’s Handbook was the bible for all with interest for radio. Originally it was published in Australia, but the publishers of Wireless World had it published in England from the third volume in 1940. It was then a quite normal book of 352 pages, but the fourth volume from 1953 was a whopper on 1482 pages.

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