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Household electronics

Here are entered works on electronic equipment in the home, i.e. audio equipment, television, home video systems, etc. Works on electronics for amateurs and hobbyists are entered under Electronics -- Amateurs' manuals.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Electronic apparatus and appliances
• Electronics

• Household electronics -- Purchasing
• Radio -- Receivers and reception
• Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Equipment and supplies
• Television -- Receivers and reception

• Consumer electronics
• Home electronics

• The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (web edition, 2016), by Andrew Huang (PDF with commentary at bunniestudios.com)

• Superheterodyne Converters and I-F Amplifiers (second edition; New York: J. F. Rider, c1963), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Radio Receiver Servicing (second edition; Indianapolis and New York: H. W. Sams and Co., and Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1959), by John T. Frye (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Aligning Philco Receivers (2 volumes; New York: J. F. Rider, c1937-1941), by John F. Rider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Servicing by Signal Tracing (New York: J. F. Rider, c1939), by John F. Rider (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Hour a Day With Rider on Alternating Currents in Radio Receivers (New York: J. F. Rider, c1937), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• An Hour a Day With Rider on D.-C. Voltage Distribution in Radio Receivers (New York: J. F. Rider, c1936), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• An Hour a Day With Rider on Resonance and Alignment, by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Elements of Radio (New York and San Francisco: Prentice-Hall, 1943), by Abraham Marcus and William Marcus, ed. by Ralph E. Horton (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• FM Transmission and Reception (New York: J. F. Rider, c1949), by John F. Rider and Seymour D. Uslan (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• The Oscillator at Work (New York: J. F. Rider, c1940), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Automatic Frequency Control Systems (New York: J. F. Rider, c1937), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• An Hour a Day With Rider on Automatic Volume Control in Radio Receivers (New York: J. F. Rider, c1936), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• The Buffalo Evening News Radio Guide for Beginners (c1922), by Raymond F. Yates (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• An Hour a Day With Rider on Automatic Volume Control in Radio Receivers (New York: J. F. Rider, c1936), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Repairing Portable and Clock Radios (New York: J. F. Rider, c1958), by Ben Crisses and David Gnessin (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Repairing Portable and Clock Radios (New York: J. F. Rider, c1958), by Ben Crisses and David Gnessin (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• A-M Detectors (New York: J. F. Rider, c1955), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Metallic Recitifers and Crystal Diodes (New York: J. F. Rider, c. 1958), by Theodore Conti (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Basic Radio (6 volumes in 1; New York: J. F. Rider, c1961), by Marvin Tepper (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Sound on Sound (issues of this British sound system magazine freely available online 1985-1990) (partial serial archives)
• The Audio Critic (partial serial archives)

• Gramophone (1923-) (partial serial archives)

• Vinyl Theory (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR

• History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph (reprint, originally published 1895; New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1970), by W. K.-L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)

• How to Troubleshoot a TV Receiver (first edition; New York: J. F. Rider, c1953), by J. Richard Johnson (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Television: How It Works (New York: J. F. Rider, c1948), ed. by John F. Rider (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)

• How to Use Signal and Sweep Generators (first edition; New York: J. F. Rider, c1953), by J. Richard Johnson (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Audio Control Handbook for Radio and Television Broadcasting (revised edition; New York: Hastings House, c1963), by Robert S. Oringel (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Electronic Travel Aids: New Directions for Research, by National Research Council Committee on Vision (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Allied Radio Catalog (selected issues, 1929-1943), by Allied Radio Corporation (partial serial archives)

• Managing Microcomputers in Large Organizations, by National Research Council Board on Telecommunications and Computer Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Television Violence and Public Policy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000), ed. by James Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (c2011), by Jennifer Gabrys (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• How to Use Test Probes (New York: J. F. Rider, c1954), by Alfred A. Ghirardi and Robert Gordon Middleton (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• How to Use Signal and Sweep Generators (first edition; New York: J. F. Rider, c1953), by J. Richard Johnson (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Wind Models for Flight Simulator Certification of Landing and Approach Guidance and Control Systems (Washington: U. S. Dept. of Transportation; Springfield, VA: Available to the public through the National Technical Information Service, 1974), by Neal M. Barr, Dagfinn Gangsaas, and Dwight R. Schaeffer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918-1958 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), by Erik M. Conway (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Antennas (New York: J. F. Rider, c1957), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Advanced Antenna Theory (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1952), by S. A. Schelkunoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods, Formulas, and Tables for the Calculation of Antenna Capacity (Washington: GPO, 1928), by Frederick W. Grover (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gas Tubes (New York: J. F. Rider, c1958), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Crystal Oscillators (New York: J. F. Rider, c1955), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Rise and Decay Times of Pulses From Photomultipliers Using Liquid Phosphors (AECU-996; Oak Ridge, TN: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Technical Information Service, 1951), by James S. Allen and Theodore C. Engelder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Control System Components (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1958), by John E. Gibson and Franz B. Tuteur (page images at HathiTrust)

• Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (c2011), by Jennifer Gabrys (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Arming the Torturers: Electro-Shock Torture and the Spread of Stun Technology (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (New York: Reinhold; London: Chapman and Hall, c1960), ed. by Irving B. Cadoff and Edward Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Flexural Bar Transducer (Newport, RI: Naval Underwater Systems Center, ca. 1986), by Ralph Storrer Woollett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Workmanship and Design Practices for Electronic Equipment (second revision, 1962), by United States Bureau of Naval Weapons (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.