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From: johne@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (John Eaton)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: _The Boy Electrician_ (was Homemade Valves...)
Message-ID: <1430018@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 90 16:47:03 GMT
References: <52920@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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< Here's the printing info from my copy:
<
<      _The Boy Electrician_ by Alfred P. Morgan.  Lothrop, Lee & 
<      Shepherd Co.  Copyright 1913, 1929, 1940, 1948. 7th printing 
<      1957.
< 
< Does anyone know its history after 1957?  Is this delightful book 
< still available?  Was the titled changed to appease feminists? :-)
< 
<There was a companion volume, _The Boy Mechanic_, which I have never 
<seen.  Maybe Lindsay (*) will reprint the works of Morgan someday.
----------
The company published it's last book _The Boy Surgeon_ in 1958. It
explained a great deal about basic surgical techniques and even
showed how to turn ordinary kitchen utensils into effective surgical
instruments. This book is still used as a major medical reference in
many isolated third world countries despite the fact that most of the
pictures and illustrations were from ordinary household pets.

The company went bankrupt after one reader tried to remove his fathers
kidneys while he was napping and the widow filed suit.


:)


John Eaton
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