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Avalanche
Thu Jun 21 2012, 09:35PM Print
Avalanche Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
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 		Check out what I found stashed away at work today. This probably won't be all that exciting to most people but I'm actually interested in antique electrical engineering books and collect them. 95% of these books are electrical engineering, and dated between 1900-1920

I went a bit nuts and brought them all upstairs. Got a few odd looks! Probably a few of these were even read by Tesla himself smile


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The ones which interested me the most are 6 books by Charles Proteus Steinmetz, in very good condition:

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Lots of dust/sand included with them...never got so filthy handling books!
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Thomas W
Thu Jun 21 2012, 10:05PM
Thomas W Registered Member #3324 Joined: Sun Oct 17 2010, 06:57PM
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 		Wow! nice collection there, probibly worth quite a bit :o
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Sulaiman
Thu Jun 21 2012, 11:02PM
Sulaiman Registered Member #162 Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 10:25AM
Location: United Kingdom
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 		Are you a quick reader?

I think that he easiest way to store them is on display as a feature,
behind glass locked doors, the key to which is somewhere...
... 'borrowble' stuff on the open shelves :)

P.S. just looked at the 'photo again....that's a lot of books!
how to know if one is/will be valuable (enjoyment/history/cash) ?
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Josh Campbell
Fri Jun 22 2012, 02:24AM
Josh Campbell Registered Member #5258 Joined: Sun Jun 10 2012, 10:15PM
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 		Very cool, the early 1900's was an exciting time for EE's.
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radiotech
Fri Jun 22 2012, 06:03AM
radiotech Registered Member #2463 Joined: Wed Nov 11 2009, 03:49AM
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 		If I were you, I'd put them back before someone complains about dust, mildew,
and things that may be in the book bindings or pages, alive or dead.

A school I worked at had a storeroom full of books that needed a near hazmat
clean out crew and disposal service.

They threw out all the manuals and course books for a lot of stuff they sold me
a while later. When I went to get the books, the room was empty ! frown
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Steve Conner
Fri Jun 22 2012, 07:49AM
Steve Conner Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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 		Humbug! Get out the Tesla coil and disinfect them with ozone, the original authors would approve.

I love these old books. Are there any by Craggs and Meek in there? Their "High Voltage Laboratory Technique" sells for over $100.

I believe Steinmetz invented the phasor diagram for AC circuit analysis, so you may have the book that introduced it to the world.
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radiotech
Fri Jun 22 2012, 08:40AM
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 		Steinmetz gave us the law of hysteresis.




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Ash Small
Fri Jun 22 2012, 05:11PM
Ash Small Registered Member #3414 Joined: Sun Nov 14 2010, 05:05PM
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 		His patent for a low-loss induction furnace looks interesting as well:
]us1042986.pdf[/file]
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Avalanche
Fri Jun 22 2012, 05:31PM
Avalanche Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
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Steve Conner wrote ...

Humbug! Get out the Tesla coil and disinfect them with ozone, the original authors would approve.

haha, my work colleagues already think I'm completely crazy, that wouldn't make it any better cheesey

I'm going to slowly catalogue them over lunchtimes, so I'll see if there are any by that author. Not sure if work want to keep them or not, I originally got them out to try and find some more detailed info on magnetic amplifier configurations, but all the books turned out to be a lot older than we thought they were.

As for them being worth a lot, I did wonder so checked a few on abe/amazon, but they don't seem to be worth much unless you have the first edition.
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Tetris
Fri Jun 22 2012, 11:38PM
Tetris Registered Member #4016 Joined: Thu Jul 21 2011, 01:52AM
Location: Gainesville, FL
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 		Wow how much did you pay for all that? That's INSANE!!! Hehe!
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