The principles underlying radio communication

This well-bound, educational/training book, “The Principles Underlying Radio Communication," by the U.S. Bureau of Standards, is from 1922 and the era of the first development of wireless radio. It was published by the then-named U.S. Army Signal Corps. It covers telegraph and wireless communications and gives a brief but accurate survey of the basic facts and principles of electromagnetism, with special stress on its application to practical radio communications. In the effort to present these topics in a simple manner, very little mathematical knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader, and the familiar definitions, illustrations and analogies given will be a great help to beginners. Frequent references to standard books are also given for further study. This is a lovely, vintage handbook from the heyday of radio. It is a very readable and comprehensive guide, complete with many photographs and illustrations, and it gives an account of the marvels of radio…or “wireless,” as it was called at the time. The book could be a valuable reference tool for the layman who wants to apply radio for his pleasure without going into "the special theories and the intricacies of the art.”