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Abbott, D., (Ed.), 1986, The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, Engineers, and Inventors

Attwood, David and Ryecart, Guy (Photographs), 1997, The Radio: An Appreciation, Penguin Books, Australia, ISBN 0 670 87724 7

Augaitis D. and Lander D., 1994,Radio Rethink, Art Sound and Transmission, Walter Phillips Gallery, Canada, ISBN 0 920159 66 4

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1982, The ABC from 1932 to 1982: A Photo Album, Press and Public Information Department, ABC, Sydney, Australia, ISBN 0 642 97630 9

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1984, History and Development of the ABC, Press and Public Information Department, ABC, Sydney, Australia, ISBN 0 642 97607 4

Barnouw Erik, 1966, A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in The United States Volume 1 - to 1933, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, Lib Congress Catalogue Card Number 66-22258

Barnouw Erik, 1968, The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in The United States Volume 2 - 1933 to 1953, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, Lib Congress Catalogue Card Number 66-22258

Bender, Lionel, 1991, Invention: A Collins Eyewitness Guide, Collins Publishers (Australia), ISBN 0 7322 0083 0

Bergmeier, Horst J.P. and Lotz, Rainer E., 1997, Hitler's Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing - Includes Audio CD of related speeches and music., Yale University Press, USA ISBN 0 300 06709 7

Bourke Publishing, (Eds.), 1957, The Boys Book of Radio, Television and Radar, Bourke Publishing, London , UK.

Bridges, Nancye, 1983, Wonderful Wireless - Reminiscences of the Stars of Australia's Live Radio, Methuen, Australia, ISBN 0 454 00513 X

Briggs, Susan, 1981, Those Radio Times, Wiedenfield and Nicolson, London, UK. ISBN 0 297 77929 X

Browne, Donald R. 1982, International Radio Broadcasting: The Limits of the Limitless Medium, Praeger

Busby, Linda J. and Parker, Donald, 1984, The Art and Science of Radio, Allyn and Bacon Inc., Massachusetts, USA., ISBN 0 205 08049 9

Camm, F.J., 1934, Television and Short-Wave Radio Handbbook, Newnes, London, U.K.

Carter, Alden R., 1987, Radio: From Marconi to The Space Age, Franklin Watts, USA, ISBN 0531 10310 2

Childs, Harwood and Whitton, John B., 1942, Propaganda by Shortwave, Princeton University Press, USA

Clark, Ronald, 1972, Sir Edward Appleton

Colligan, Mimi, 1991, Golden Days of Radio, (accompanying an audio cassette and Australia Post stamp issue), Australia Post, ISBN 0 642 16025 2

Crocker, Patti, 1989, Radio Days, Simon and Schuster, Australia, ISBN 0 7318 0098 2

Cullinan, Howell, 1934, Pardon My Accent, Plimpton Press, Norwood, MA, USA

Dart, Harry, F.,1922, (Republished c.1980 by Vestal Press, USA) Radio Enters the Home, RCA, USA

Dobbs, G.C., 1972, Making a Transistor Radio, Wills and Hepworth, UK, ISBN 0 7214 0324 7

Douglas, George H., 1987, The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting, McFarland, Jefferson, N.C., USA

Douglas, Susan J., 1987, Inventing American Broadcasting 1899-1922, John Hopkins University Press, USA

Dreher, Carl, 1977, Sarnoff: An American Success

Dunlap Jr. Orrin Elmer, 1935, The Story of Radio, The Dial Press, Inc., USA

Dunlap Jr. Orrin Elmer, 1944, Radio's One Hundred Men of Science: Biographical Narratives of Pathfinders in Electronics and Television, Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 4th edition, reprinted by Ayer Books, 1970, ISBN 0-8369-1916-5

Fleming, (Sir) John, Ambrose, 1906, The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy, Longmans, Green and Co, London, UK.

Fleming, (Sir) John, Ambrose, 1913, The Wonders of Wireless Telegraphy explained in simple terms for the non-technical reader, Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, London, UK., E.S. Gorham, New York, USA.,

Geddes, Keith, Broadcasting in Britain: 1922 - 1972, A Science Museum (London) Booklet, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, UK, SBN 11 290155 7

Geddes, Keith, Guglielmo Marconi: 1874 - 1937, A Science Museum (London) Booklet, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, UK, ISBN 0 11 290198 0

Geeves, Philip, 1993, The Dawn of Australia's Radio Broadcasting, Federal Publishing Company, Australia.

Gernsback, Sidney, 1927, Radio Encyclopedia, Gernsback Publishing, New York, USA

Green, Charles, 1984, All About Crystal Sets: How - To - Build Simple Crystal Set Radios, All About Books, San Diego, USA, ISBN 0 930003 00 4

Hawes, Robert, 1991, Radio Art, The Green Wood Publishing Co., London, UK., ISBN 1 872532 29 2

Hawes, Robert, 1996, Bakelite Radios: A Fully Illustrated Guide for the Bakelite Radio Enthusiast, New Burlington Publishing, London, ISBN 1 85348 859 3

Hawks, Ellison, 1927, Pioneers of Wireless, Methuen and Co., London, UK., (reprinted in 1974 by Arno Press & The New York Times, NY., USA), ISBN 0 405 06049 1

Hill, Jonathan, 1978, The Cat's Whisker: 50 Years of Wireless Design, Oresko Books Ltd., London, UK, ISBN 0 905368 46 0 0 (cloth)

Hodge, Errol, 1985, Radio Wars: Truth, Propaganda and the Struggle for Radio Australia, Cambridge U. P., UK, ISBN 0 521 47380 2

Ingliss, K.E, 1983, This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932 - 1983, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Australia. ISBN 0 522 84258 5

Institute of Radio Engineers (Aust.) Eds., 1938, Complete Preceedings of the World Radio Convention, (Sydney, Australia, April 4 -14 1938), Institute of Radio Engineers (Aust.)

Jensen, Peter R., 1994, In Marconi's Footsteps: Early Radio, Kangaroo Press Pty.Ltd., Kenthurst, Australia, ISBN 0 86417 607 4

Johnson, Lesley, 1988, The Unseen Voice: A Cultural History of Early Australian Radio, Routlege, London, UK. ISBN 0 415 02763 2

Jones, Colin, 1995, Something in the Air: A History of Radio in Australia, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, Australia, ISBN 0 86417 700 3

Jungnickel, C., and McCormmach, R., 1986, Intellectual Mastery of Nature, 2 Volumes, Chicago

Kasch, Darryl, (compiler), Scrapbook of Australian Wireless: Vol.1., 1922 -1929

Kelly, Sister Suzanne, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, (William Gilbert)

Kent, Jacqueline, 1983, Out of The Bakelite Box: The Heyday of Australian Radio, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, Australia, Revised and updated edition 1990, published by, Sydney, Australia, ISBN 0 7333 0037 5

Kinzie, P., A., Crystal Radio: History, Fundementals and Design, The Xtal Set Society PO Box 3026 St. Louis, MO, USA ISBN 1 887736 05 0

Ladd, James and Melton, H. Keith ,1988, Clandestine Warfare: Weapons and Equipment of the SOE and OSS, Guild Publishing, London, U.K.,

Leinwoll, Stanley, 1979, From Spark to Satellite: A History of Radio Communication, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, USA, ISBN 0 684 16084 X

Lessing, L.P., 1956, Man of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong

Levine, Israel, E., 1964, Electronics Pioneer: Lee De Forest

Lewis, Tom, Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio (see also video collection), ISBN 0 06 018215 6

Lodge, (Sir) Oliver Joseph, 1900, Signalling across space without wires: Being the description of the work of [ Heinrich ] Hertz and his successors, Reprint 1974, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA., ISBN 0 405 06051 3

Lyons, Eugene, 1966, David Sarnoff, A Biography

MacGregor-Morris, J.T., 1954, The Inventor of the Valve, (Fleming, Sir Ambrose)

McMahon, Morgan E., 1975, A Flick of the Switch 1930 - 1950, Vintage Radio, CA., USA., ISBN 0 914126 09 1

Manvell, Roger, 1953, On The Air: A Study of Broadcasting in Sound and Television, Andre Deutch Ltd., London, UK.

Melton, H. Keith, 1993, CIA Special Weapons and Equipment: Spy Devices of the Cold War, Sterling Publishing Co., N.Y., USA, 0 8069 8732 4

Melton, H., Keith, 1996, The Ultimate Spy Book, Dorling Kindersley, London, U.K., 0 86438 875 6

Michaelis Dr. Anthony R., (Ed.), 1965, From Semaphore to Satellite: Celebrating the Centenary of the ITU, International Telecomunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland

Morgan, Alfred, 1913, Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony simply explained..(more), The Norman W. Henly Publishing Co., NY., USA.,

Muscio, Winston, T, 1984, Australian Radio: The Technical Story 1923 - 1983, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, Australia, ISBN 0 949924 82 2

Nahin, P.J., Oliver Heaviside. Scientific American, June 1990, pp. 122-129.

Nahin, P.J., 1988, Sage in Solitude, IEEE Press, New York, USA

Negroponte, Nicholas, 1995, Being Digital: The Roadmap for Survival on the Information Superhighway, Knopf Publishing Group, Random House Inc., USA

Pease, Edward, C., and Dennis, Everette, E., (Eds.), 1995, Radio - The Forgotten Medium, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New York, USA, ISBN 1 56000 798 2 (acid free)

Potts, John, 1989, Radio in Australia, New South Wales University Press, Kensington, Australia, ISBN 0 86840 331 8

Rhoads, Eric B., 1997, Blast From The Past: A Pictorial History of Radio's First 75 Years, Streamline Press

Robertson and Cataract Electrical Co., 1922, (Republished c. 1980 by Vestal Press, USA) Radio Equipment and Supplies #22, (1922-23), Robertson and Cataract Electrical Co.,Buffalo, NY., USA

Sarnoff, David, 1968, Looking Ahead: The Papers of David Sarnoff, McGraw Hill, Library of Congress 68-19491

Settel, Irving, 1960, A Pictorial History of Radio, Citadel Press, New York, USA., Library of Congress No: 60 53132

Soley, Lawrence, and John S. Nichols, 1987, Clandestine Radio Broadcasting, Praeger

Soley, Lawrence C., 1989, Radio Warfare: OSS and CIA Subversive Propaganda, Praeger Publishers, New York, USA, ISBN 0 275 93051 3

Strauss, N. and Mandl, D., 1993, Radio text[e], USA, ISBN 0 936756 94 2

Telecom Australia (now Telstra), 1988, The Distant Image: A History of Facsimile, Telecom, Sydney, Australia

Thomas, Alan, 1980, Broadcast and Be Damned: The ABC's First Two Decades, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Australia, ISBN 0 522 84198 8

Thomson, David Gleghorn, 1937, Radio Is Changing Us: A Survey of Radio Development and its Problems in our Changing World, Watts and Co., London, UK.

Vyvyan, R. N., 1974, Marconi and Wireless, (first published in 1933 as Wireless Over 30 Years), E. P. Publishing, East Ardsley, Yorkshire UK., ISBN 0 7158 1050 2

Walker, Andrew, 1992, A Skyful of Freedom: 60 Years of the BBC World Service, Broadside Books, UK, ISBN 1 874092 03 6

Walker, R. R., (Robert Rowan), 1973, The Magic Spark: The Story of the first fifty Years of Radio in Australia, The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, Australia, ISBN 7256 0116 7

Wedlake G.E.C., 1973, SOS: The Story of Radio Communication, Wren Publishing PL., Melbourne, Australia, ISBN 0 85885 091 5

Williams, Robyn, 1996, Normal Service won't be Resumed: The Future of Public Broadcasting, Allen and Unwin P/L., St Leonards, Australia, ISBN 1 86448 249 4

Young, R.J., 1994, Crystal Sets 'N' Such, Self Published, Benalla, Victoria, Australia, 0 646 21852 2


Electricity, Electronics, Telegraphy and Telephony

Abbott, David, (Ed.), 1984, The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists: Physicists

Bordeau, Sanford P., 1982, Volts to Hertz: The Rise of Electricity

Bowers, Brian, 1975, Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS, 1802-1875

Bridgman, Roger, 1993, Electronics: A Collins Eyewitness Guide, HarperCollins Publishers (Australia), ISBN 0 7322 4976 7

Brooks, John, 1975, Telephone - The First Hundred Years, Harper and Row Publishers, USA, ISBN 0-06-010540-2

Buchwald, J.Z., 1988, From Maxwell to Microphysics, (Maxwell, James Clerk)

Canby, Edward Tatnall, 1962, A History of Electricity, The New Illustrated Library of Science and Invention, Leisure Arts Ltd. Publishers, London, UK

Cook, J., Gordon, (c.1935) Electrons Go To Work, The Scientific Book Club, London., UK

Deuerlein, E., 1939, Georg Simon Ohm, 1789-1854, Erlangen

Dibner, Bern, 1964, Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery

Dibner, Bern, 1952, Galvani-Volta: A Controversy That Led to the Discovery of Useful Electricity

Dibner, Bern, 1981, rev. ed. Heralds of Science

Dibner, Bern, 1963, 2nd. ed., Oersted and the Discovery of Electromagnetism

Dunsheath, Percy, 1967, Giants of Electricity

Fournier d'Albe, Edmund Edward, 1923, The Life of Sir William Crookes

Füchtbauer, H, von, 1939, Georg Simon Ohm. Ein Forscher wächst aus seiner Väter Art

Gilbert, William, 1600, De Magnete [ A Treatise on... ] 'The Magnet', first English ed. 1900, London

Gillmor, C.W., 1972, Charles Augustin de Coulomb

Gooding, David, and James, F.A., (Eds.), 1986, Faraday Rediscovered

Gross, Lynne, S., Telecommunications: An Introduction to Electronic Media

Harre, Rom, (Ed.), 1986, A History of the Physical Sciences since Antiquity

Harre, Romano, 1965, Early Seventeenth Century Scientists, (Gilbert, William)

Hendry, John, 1986, James Clerk Maxwell and the Theory of the Electromagnetic Field

Hubbard, Geoffrey, 1965, Cooke and Wheatstone and the Invention of the Electric Telegraph

Jones, Bessie A., ed., 1966, The Golden Age of Science: Thirty Portraits of the Giants of 19th Century Science, (Becquerel, Antoine Henri)

Kennedy, Rankin, c.1920, The Book of Electrical Installation: Volume 3, Caxton Publishing Co. Ltd., London, UK

Mason, Peter, 1981, The Light Fantastic, Penguin Books, Australia, ISBN 0 14006129 0

McGowen, Tom, 1986, Radioactivity: From the Curies to the Atomic Age

Meyer, Jerome S., 1967, Great Accidents in Science that Changed the World

Meyer, Ralph O., 1995, Old Time Telephones ! Technology, Restoration and Repair, TAB Books, (McGraw Hill), ISBN 0 07 041817 9

Morgan, Bryan, 1953, Men and Discoveries in Electricity, Published by John Murray for The Scientic Book Club, London, UK

Parker, Steve, 1992, Electricity: A Collins Eyewitness Guide, Harper Collins Publishers (Australia), ISBN 0 7322 0114 4

Pearce, L., 1987, Michael Faraday

Pera, Marcello, 1986, The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani - Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity, (1992 Trans. by Jonathan Mandelbaum from 'La rana ambigua'), Princeton Univesity Press, N.J., USA ISBN 0 691 08512 9 (alk. paper)

Prescott, G. B., 1844, Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone: Its Invention, Construction, Application, Modification & History, D. Appleton and Company, Reprint 1972, Arno Press Inc., NY., USA., ISBN 0 405 04718 5

Roller, Duane H.D., 1959, The De Magnete of William Gilbert, Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger

Ronan, Colin, 1968, Faraday and Electricity

Slater, R., 1987, Portraits in Silicon, (William Shockley)

Stevenson, O.J., 1954, The Talking Wire: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The Bodley Head, London, UK

Swan, Kenneth R., 1948, Sir Joseph Swan and the Invention of the Incandescent Electric Lamp

Tolstoy, Ivan, 1982, James Clerk-Maxwell

Thompson, Prof. Silvanus, P., 1898, Michael Faraday: his Life and Work, The Century Science Series, Cassell & Company Limited, London, UK

Trinkaus, George, 1988, Tesla: The Lost Inventions, High Voltage Press

Turner, Roland, and Goulden, S.L.,(Eds.), 1981, Great Engineers and Pioneers in Technology, (Charles Augustin de Coulomb)

Williams, L.P., 1989, André-Marie Ampère, Scientific American, January


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