B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 19, 2014

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)

My daughter has the set I bought when she was in school. I kept my father’s set (WW2 era)

Two sets when I was a kid… Obsolete now.

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.

Encyclopedia holding up a foosball table, now there’s a redneck recommendation if I ever heard one.

sets from 1910 will give you a whole different view of the world.

nevertheless, books on a shelf must be dusted.

Are you sure? I’ve never heard that. Have I been wrong all these years?

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return their copies to the publisher (most didn’t comply) and copies removed from libraries!(I still have mine, outdated by now!)