Young Adult Chapman, Allen: The Radio Boys' First Wireless, v2, 17th Feb 2019

[HarryT]

This is the first book in the juvenile "Radio Boys" series, published by Grosset and Dunlap in 1922. The publisher's advertisement described the series as follows:

"Here is a series that gives full details of radio work both in sending and receiving--how large and small sets can be made and operated, and with this real information there are stories about the Radio Boys and their adventures. Each story is a record of thrilling adventures--rescues, narrow escapes from death, daring exploits in which radio play a main part. Each volume is so thoroughly fascinating, so strictly up-to-date, and accurate that all modern boys will peruse them with delight. Each volume has a forward by Jack Binns, the well known radio expert."

"Who the heck is Jack Binns?" Glad you asked! Over a century ago, New York held a parade to honour Jack Binns, the 24-year-old British wireless operator of the White Star liner Republic, whose quick thinking and persistence helped save scores of lives when the liner was rammed by a cargo ship in the freezing water off the coast of Nantucket on the early morning of January 23, 1909. Binns continued to work as a radio operator until 1912, when he turned down an assignment on the ill-fated Titanic, after which he took up a career in journalism and writing forewords to the Radio Boys series for Edward Stratemeyer.

The original description of the book is:

A captivating tale, showing how several boys of a small town became interested in radiophoning and set about making their own receiving apparatus. They had, of course, a number of rivals, and when a rich man of that vicinity offered a prize for the best made amateur set, their rivals did what they could to bring their hard work to naught, even going so far as to make off with the apparatus that was to be placed in the competition.

The story gives many directions for building a small wireless receiving set, and also tells of radio work in general, how airships and other vessels have been guided by wireless, how even an automobile has been steered by radio, and how the Government traces an unlicensed sending station.

A book any boy will read with avidity--and many grown person will also want to dip into it.

Converted and cleaned up from the original PG source, and the original cover added.

Enjoy!

EDIT: 18th Feb. Uploaded v2 which fixed an error in the file and uses a more appropriately-sized cover.

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[HarryT]

Uploaded v2 which fixed an error in the file and uses a more appropriately-sized cover.