Abstract
LITTLE more than ten years ago it was possible for an industrious plodder to declare that he was acquainted with all the literature of radio communication and that he had studied all the known methods and apparatus thoroughly. To-day, such a claim would be thought to be too ambitious; for the science and practice of radio engineering has been enriched by so many new discoveries and inventions, has found expression in so wide and diverse a literature, that no one mind can possibly now grasp the subject as a whole and in all its details. To point this remark one need only notice that the flow of invention in high-frequency engineering and its related subjects has been so copious since the War that the relevant patent specifications of any one progressive country would make a dozen large tomes. This flood of invention has been accompanied by a corresponding spate of scientific investigation and discussion; and thus, by the way, the recent history of wireless telegraphy affords a large-scale example of the intimate and rapid mutual reactions of science and practice. The largeness of the scale can be seen from the encyclopædic nature of some of the books on radiotelegraphy that have appeared recently.
Wireless Principles and Practice.
By Dr. L. S. Palmer. Pp. xi + 504. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 18s. net.
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Wireless Principles and Practice . Nature 122, 48–49 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122048a0
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