[GreenKeys] Re: Bell System Technical Journals
Don Robert House
drhouse at nadcomm.com
Tue Jul 12 14:15:25 EDT 2005
John,
I am looking for copies of the BSTJ from 1953 to 1979. Do you know
of any sources?
Don K9TTY
On 12 Jul 2005, at 11:47 AM, John Lawson wrote:
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> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, jhhaynes at earthlink.net wrote:
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>> for $15,600. A Bell Labs monograph with a Shannon paper went for
>> $9,000.
>> These are things that should be in any good engineering library.
>>
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>
> Makes me wonder (a bit) what my complete set of the BSTJs from #1
> (1921) to #23 (1943) is worth. Has all of that - has Nyquist's
> paper, and it's famous appendix ("Certain Factors Affecting
> Telegraph Speed) now known as 'Nyquist's Theorem') - all of Harald
> Bode's early work, E.C. Wente, Harry F. Olson... so much of the
> foundations of our technology came from Bell Labs - and damn near
> all of the early advances in radio communications. Some of it sure
> is amazing reading.
>
> Not that I'm much interested in selling. Trade for 100 acres of
> Montana forest with a mountain QTH in the middle of it - hmmm,
> maybe...
>
> Cheers
>
> John KB6SCO
>
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