Introduction to electronic circuits: by R. Feinberg.163 pages, diagrams, 15 × 22 cm. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., Inc., 1952.Price, $3.50

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• Book ID: 103076447
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1952
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 106 KB
• Volume: 254
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(52)90020-3

✦ Synopsis

account in predicting radar system powers and sensitivities required to produce any specified performance characteristics.

Although the subject of this book may be thought of as being somewhat specialized, it is timely and of extreme importance at this point in our development of high-informationcontent transmission and relay systems.

The information, originally gathered for the purpose of improving our wartime radar systems, is fortunately available now that it is needed for gen-era1 communications developments.

The communications channels that will be used to the limits of their capacity in the future will of necessity rely on a better understanding of the propagation phase of the engineering problem as well as the components and other system improvements.

The timeliness of this subject is further emphasized by the fact that the Franklin Institute Laboratories are currently engaged in a very large theoretical and experimental program concerned directly with microwave propagation studies.

This treatise has the advantages of multiple authorship.

That is, the various sections are written by specialists with broad personal experience in their own fields. In all, there are thirteen contributing authors, each of whom is highly competent.

The presentation consists primarily of new work done by these men at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and is not a review of work done by others.

Although the book may not have a popular appeal to radio engineers in general practice, it is a very necessary volume of the Radiation Laboratory Series for complete coverage of radar and related techniques.

C. W. HARGENS