63 MILITARY ELECTRONICS TRAINING MAN 3 DVD-ROMS 1941-65

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You are bidding on a three DVD-ROM set of 63 scanned military electronics training manuals, dating from 1941 through 1965 with special emphasis on the vacuum-tube era. There are more than 10,000 pages of information here. Most of the manuals are from the Army, but there is a collection of Air Force and Navy manuals, as well as some manuals from Philco that were written on contract to the military. The heart of the sequence is the "Fundamentals of Electronics" series of 23 manuals from the Army that form a complete course in electronics for the maintenance engineer. There are a number of volumes on testing and troubleshooting techniques. The basic theory of electronics and electronic devices is explained a number of times here in various different ways. Systems as varied as telephony and magnetron oscillators are described. Each of the manuals has been scanned by OCR and is fully text-searchable. In addition, there is a full collection-wide index that will take you directly to the word in any manual. Do a search on "dynatron" or "loran" and it will give you each and every mention of it. (note: to use this search facillity, you really have to copy the discs to a single folder on a hard drive so the index can get to them). NOTE: I can make a printed copy of any of the manuals on this DVD-ROM for about 10 cents/page. I have many such reprints listed on eBay right now. Please contact me if you would like one that isn't currently listed on eBay. Buyer to pay fixed shipping charges of $3.50 for domestic, $7.50 for foreign. The media are DVD-R discs (generally Taiyo-Yuden) recorded and verified on Philips DVR drives.The following is a complete description of the contents:================================================ The military faced a difficult problem in WWII. This was the first war where the relatively recent technology of electronics played a significant role – a role that changed enormously across the war years. At the beginning of the war, electronics was limited mostly to communications – telephone, telegraph, and radio. Hundreds of thousands of radio receivers and transmitters were built. Every aircraft had separate units to communicate with other aircraft and with the ground stations. Every boat and land installation had communications gear. All this equipment had to be installed, tested, and maintained using a work force that knew nothing of electronics. The military found itself in the business of essentially running trade schools to teach legions of new recruits something about electronics. To even maintain this equipment, basic knowledge of electricity and electronics was deemed necessary. Given the paucity of available material, the Army took upon itself the development of a range of training materials. Civilian companies, such as Philco and GM, were engaged to develop coursework and training manuals. This collection represents the main thrust of these materials – a large but necessarily incomplete record of the materials that were used. Electronic Fundamentals Series. This is a series of 23 manuals that take the recruit step-by-step through a general electronics education. The technology was changing so rapidly that the nature of the manuals changed throughout the development. Certain manuals (Introduction to Transistors) were conceived and scheduled during the production of the series. As far as I know, the following manuals constitute the complete series. The ones included on this collection are as follows: TM 11-660 “Introduction to Electronics” July 1949, 50p – This is really a sales brochure for the discipline of electronics. It is not technical. It uses an expansive kind of language that is no longer popular. For instance, the introduction starts with “This is a story of the electron” . It ends with “[This book] is an introduction to the pursuit of those paths which lead to the command of Electricity, Radio, Radar, Television, Telegraphy, Telephony – to the command of the March of the Electron.” Wonderful writing! Chapters include evolution... read more

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