Abstract
THE inauguration of a television service in Great Britain has brought forth a number of textbooks, not so much on the theory of the subject as on the very practical question of keeping receivers in effective operation. The complexity in a television receiving set might suggest that the liability to failure is high in comparison with normal broadcasting receivers. The fact is, however, that television sets are much better made, and the anticipated mass-faulting has not matured. The present text-book gives some indication how faults may be chased and put right, but we should not be doing the book justice if we stopped at that, because in illustrating the way in which the elementary parts might mis-function, the author does give much insight into the working of the several parts, so that a technician in a hurry to grasp a formidable subject can get some basic knowledge as well. The text is illustrated with rasters exhibiting typical faults and many clear diagrams.
Testing Television Sets
J. H.
Reyner
By. Pp. viii + 128 +12 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1938.) 9s. 6d. net.
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H., L. Engineering. Nature 144, 194 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144194d0
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