Google Books !!! PopSci (1900-2008) PopMech and more!

Agent420

I recently noticed that Google Books is really ramping up their online library, and is including much more unrestricted, full version content...· (tip - you can filter searches to return only full preview material)
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Case in point, they have virtually all the issues of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics from 1900 on!··· I also never heard of HWM (HardWare Mag)· before, looks interesting.

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Post Edited (Agent420) : 8/14/2009 3:46:41 PM GMT

CounterRotatingProps

This is cool Agent420 - thanks for letting us know.

Seeing those covers makes me think of that old phrase "They sure don't build 'em like they used to."

- H

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WBA Consulting

Awesome link, I wish they had more old magazines like that.

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Andrew Williams
WBA Consulting
IT / Web / PCB / Audio

CounterRotatingProps

What's really odd is to come across names and addresses written in the margins.

My father had a collection of National Geographics going back to something like 1920 or '30. When they moved, he sold them to a collector - I still miss looking through the really old ones.

The old ad's and how-to tips are the real kickers! Some of those how-to's should be brought back because they're still really good and clever.

- H, feeling nostalgic for the future...

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TonyD

There are some really great finds in Google Books. Below are links to some of Steve Ciarcia's (of Circuit Cellar and Byte magazine fame) early books

Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar vol II
Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar vol VI
Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar vol V
Build your own Z80 Computer

great reads [noparse]:)[/noparse]

We should start a list here

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- Tony

http://zuzebox.wordpress.com/

Agent420

^ Steve Ciarcia is one of my heros [noparse]:)[/noparse]·· Though those books may be 20 years old, there's still a ton of useful information in there, much of which is still relative to microcontrollers we use today.

CounterRotatingProps

TonyD said...


We should start a list here

Good idea - but we should limit to OLD, refound sources because we have on-going book and reading lists here already.

@Agent420

you can edit the subject of your original post. May I suggest something like:

Google Books !!! List of OLD Stuff: PopSci, PopMech and more!

or

Google Books !!! List of OLDY but not so moldy: PopSci, PopMech and more!

:^)

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kwinn

@ Agent420

You are right about Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar having a lot of information that is still relevant. I have an almost complete collection of Byte, Circuit Cellar, and even some Interface Age magazines (still packed in boxes after my last move). It is amazing how much of the circuitry used today resembles the projects and design ideas from those magazines. The major difference is that what took a board (or boards) back then can usually be done with one or two chips now.

For anyone trying to come up with a project idea just the indexes of those magazines would be a gold mine. Everything old really is new again.

Agent420

CounterRotatingProps said...


you can edit the subject of your original post. May I suggest something like:

Google Books !!! List of OLD Stuff: PopSci, PopMech and more!

or

Google Books !!! List of OLDY but not so moldy: PopSci, PopMech and more!

:^)

There's a lot of current content offerrings as well if you look around - if you are a guitar player like myself you might enjoy recent issues of Guitar World Magazine, they have up to the February 2009 all for free.

And part of the definition of old may apply to the PopSci examples, they have up to 2008 issues - not bad for free.· I compromised on the thread title ;-)


edit - where is the book & reading list?· I must have overlooked it.


@kwinn -
You're right.· I also have virtually every issue of CC in my library ;-)

Check out this Feb '94 CC article, might just be the first widely published persistence of vision project evar!· And though we can accomplish this with much less hardware, the science and design considerations discussed - including refresh timings to use -·are still applicable.

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Chris Savage

My wife did note that although there are full versions of many books, several that she viewed had the top, bottom or sides of the page partially cut off due to poor scanning. Nonetheless it is a great place to look up some material.

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Chris Savage
Parallax Engineering

Agent420

^ I guess some of that is inevitable given the volume of scanning they do.· I've noted the occasional clipped page, but not in frequencies I would consider objectionable.

Btw, have you seen the scanning technology Google invented to accomplish this task?· Pretty clever.

CounterRotatingProps

> the scanning technology

hey - this looks like something one of our folks here could have invented!

Seems like a *major* flaw in that system: it needs an 'auto page turner.'

ISM !

I Smell Money


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SRLM

CRP said...
Seems like a *major* flaw in that system: it needs an 'auto page turner.'

They probably already have auto page turners. I bet they just didn't want to limit the patent to require that.

CounterRotatingProps

SRLM> ... just didn't want to limit the patent ...

Oh - yes, I hadn't thought of that - makes sense.

The page turner gadget might be cooler than the camera - I imaging little suction cups on articulated arms... maybe it runs using a basic stamp [noparse]:)[/noparse])

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