Re: [TCML] Arc Temperature - Dover book

[Mddeming@xxxxxxx]

Hi Phil,
 
    You're right! The average price for what was the  "inexpensive Dover 
edition" is now ~$75!! There was a "fair condition" one  for ~$32, yesterday, but 
it sold within minutes of being posted. As another  example, I have a 
paperback copy of Brinley's "Rocket Manual for Amateurs" that  I bought brand new for 
$0.75 back in 1960. It now goes for over $100, if  you can find one. 
    Since I live in a predominantly redneck state,  technical books at the 
main library have a relatively short shelf-life. Guess  who's there every year 
for their annual book sale? ;^)))
 
Matt D. 
In a message dated 12/5/07 11:27:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx writes:

>Cobine's book "Gaseous Conductors" is a good reference if you  can  get it. 
It was published as an 
>inexpensive Dover  edition, but I think it's out of print.   Cobine has 
everything  that was in Somerville.


FWIW, I received the a 1st  edition copy of Cobine's  as a birthday 
present this year. NOT  inexpensive. They really don't make books  like they 
used to!
Lots of "practical" info beyond all the arc theory.  I found the  stuff on 
welding arcs, lightning arrestors, fuses, Lichtenberg   figures, mercury 
rectifiers, all kinds of other gaseous rectifiers,  discharge  lighting 
sources, and 
electron beam focusing/deflecting  very interesting. 

-Phil LaBudde







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