We’re moving and had to throw away our encyclopedia, Everything is on line now. (if we had been able to keep it bit longer, it would have been an antique, much like myself)
We have a complete set, and all the yearly updates since 1987 when we purchased the original set. Every once in a while, I will pick out a book and thumb through it and I always go through the latest yearbook when it arrives.
Even in gradeschool, I was leaning toward electronic engineering, but the only ref. books we had were the 1929 version of the World Book! Even by 1948 coherers weren’t being used much anymore!
Even in the 1960s and in an Engineering College the most up to date information one could find on the telephone system was from the 30s! The telephone company didn’t want the general public knowing how the telephone worked.Bell was so adamant about secrecy, that when someone published some tech material in 73 (Amateur Radio) Magazine, the courts ruled that subscribers return their copies to the publisher (most didn’t comply) and copies removed from libraries!(I still have mine, outdated by now!)
HonoBear over 10 years ago
We’re moving and had to throw away our encyclopedia, Everything is on line now. (if we had been able to keep it bit longer, it would have been an antique, much like myself)
ladykat over 10 years ago
My daughter has the set I bought when she was in school. I kept my father’s set (WW2 era)
jtviper7 over 10 years ago
Two sets when I was a kid… Obsolete now.
neverenoughgold over 10 years ago
We have a complete set, and all the yearly updates since 1987 when we purchased the original set. Every once in a while, I will pick out a book and thumb through it and I always go through the latest yearbook when it arrives.
loner34 over 10 years ago
Encyclopedia holding up a foosball table, now there’s a redneck recommendation if I ever heard one.
route66paul over 10 years ago
sets from 1910 will give you a whole different view of the world.
x_Tech over 10 years ago
Are you sure? I’ve never heard that. Have I been wrong all these years?
tuslog64 over 10 years ago
Even in gradeschool, I was leaning toward electronic engineering, but the only ref. books we had were the 1929 version of the World Book! Even by 1948 coherers weren’t being used much anymore!
tuslog64 over 10 years ago
Even in the 1960s and in an Engineering College the most up to date information one could find on the telephone system was from the 30s! The telephone company didn’t want the general public knowing how the telephone worked.Bell was so adamant about secrecy, that when someone published some tech material in 73 (Amateur Radio) Magazine, the courts ruled that subscribers return their copies to the publisher (most didn’t comply) and copies removed from libraries!(I still have mine, outdated by now!)