Thanks. Interesting. I reviewed the first, in HTML, and saw no significant problems with the production process. The title page is on an angle of a degree or two.
I hit quite a few electrical "we don't do it this way now" moments, of course. One of them was the telephone line lightning arrester; a simple gap, then later enclosed gas discharge tubes were used so that flammable atmospheres or light fuels were not ignited by a distant strike. On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 07:42:24PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > Alfred Powell Morgan was a Constructivist and a Maker before either term > existed. He loomed large in my life in the Sixth grade and two of his books in > the public domain have been transcribed by me for Project Gutenberg. > > The Boy Electrician > > [1]https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63207 > > How To Build A 20-Foot Bi-Plane Glider > > [2]https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63077 > > The first book was one I read back then, but the edition I read was a much > later edition. That is available as a reprint. The second book I only > discovered recently. Both are lavishly illustrated by the author. > > I have donated several e-books to Project Gutenberg, including complete > translations of The Ramayana and other sacred texts of Hinduism, Farewell My > Lovely by Raymond Chandler for PG Canada, and I even taught myself LaTeX so I > could publish new editions of some of these books for print on demand. None of > that work fills me with the pride that making The Boy Electrician available as > a free e-book does. > > You might object to the title, and I agree it hasn't aged well, but if the > book > had been called Electricity Projects for Boys and Girls back then I wouldn't > have gone near it and my life might have taken a very different course. > > Check it out! > > James Simmons > > References: > > [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63207 > [2] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63077 > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep