Abstract
THE science and practice of radio communication have developed so rapidly during the past ten or fifteen years, and now cover such a wide field, that it has become impossible to confine an adequate technical description of the subject within the covers of a single volume. Whatever alteration may take place on the practical engineering side, however, it is unlikely that the fundamental principles of the generation, transmission, and reception of electromagnetic waves will be materially changed; and it is with such principles that the somewhat formidable volume compiled by Prof. Morecroft is concerned. It is the second edition of a book with which many radio engineers are already familiar; and although, as mentioned in the preface, two chapters from the first edition have been deleted and a third has been considerably reduced in length, the amount of new material dealt with is such as to bring the present volume up to just above one thousand pages. The newcomer to the wireless art will probably be appalled by the size of the volume, but there is no doubt that the serious student and the technical engineer will find the book a mine of information and an extremely useful text-book.
Principles of Radio Communication.
By Prof. John H. Morecroft. assisted by A. Pinto and Prof. W. A. Curry. Second edition, thoroughly revised. Pp. xiv + 1001. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1927.) 37s. 6d. net.
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SMITH-ROSE, R. Fundamental Principles of Radio Communication. Nature 122, 567–568 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122567a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122567a0