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• The Radio Planet (New York: Ace Books, c1926), by Ralph Milne Farley, illust. by Jack Gaughan and John Schoenherr (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Radio Beasts (New York: Ace Books, c1925), by Ralph Milne Farley, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (ca. 1879), by Ella Cheever Thayer (Gutenberg text)

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

• Radio Electronics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1956), by Samuel Seely (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Modern Radio (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1944), by Kingdon S. Tyler, illust. by James Mac Donald (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)
• The MYE Technical Manual (Indianapolis: P. R. Mallory and Co., c1942), by and Co. P. R. Mallory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radio as a Career (from the Kitson Careers series; New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, 1940), by J. L. Hornung (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Magic Dials: The Story of Radio and Television (New York: Lee Furman, 1939), by Lowell Thomas, illust. by Anton Bruehl (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Story of Radio (second edition; New York: The Dial Press, 1935), by Orrin E. Dunlap (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Radio Decade (1930), by Radio Corporation of America (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Radio Markets of the World, 1930 (US Dept. of Commerce trade promotion series, #109; Washington: GPO, 1930), by Lawrence D. Batson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Electric Word: The Rise of Radio (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Paul Schubert (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Methods, Formulas, and Tables for the Calculation of Antenna Capacity (Washington: GPO, 1928), by Frederick W. Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Radio Industry: The Story of its Development, As Told by Leaders of the Industry to the Students of the Graduate School of Business Administration, George F. Baker Foundation, Harvard University (Chicago et al.: A. W. Shaw, 1928), contrib. by David Sarnoff, J. Anton De Haas, Elmer E. Bucher, James G. Harbord, Frank B. Jewett, E. P. Edwards, Stephen B. Davis, H. P. Davis, Merlin Hall Aylesworth, J. L. Ray, Pierre Boucheron, and Harold C. Weber (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Understanding Vectors and Phase (fourth printing; New York: J. F. Rider, 1958), by John F. Rider and Seymour D. Uslan (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The A.B.C. of Radio: The Underlying Principles of Wireless Telephony in Simple Language With Explanatory Drawings and Glossary (second edition; New York: M. H. Ray, c1922), by Waldemar Kaempffert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Construction of Radio Phone and Telegraph Receivers for Beginners (New York: N. W. Henley Pub. Co., 1922), by M. B. Sleeper (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• The Radio Amateur's Hand Book (1922), by A. Frederick Collins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Radio Experimenter's Hand Book: A Book to Answer the Practical Problems of Beginners and Advanced Students of Radio Experimental Work (New York: De Forest Radio Tel. and Tel. Co., 1920), by M. B. Sleeper (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Radio for All (Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1922), by Hugo Gernsback
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Radio Telephony (New York: The Wireless Press, c1918), by Alfred N. Goldsmith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Standard Radio Guide: Wireless Explained in Simple Language With Pictures, Diagrams, Radio Map and Complete Directions for Using Receiving Outfits (popular edition; New York: Popular Science Monthly, c1922) (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• All About Broadcasting (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1942), by Creighton Peet (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• The Cathode-Ray Tube at Work (New York: J. F. Rider, c1935), by John F. Rider (PDF at americanradiohistory.com)
• Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice (New York: McGraw Pub. Co., 1905), by A. Frederick Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "WWJ, The Detroit News": The History of Radiophone Broadcasting by the Earliest and Foremost of Newspaper Stations; Together With Information on Radio for Amateur and Expert (Detroit: Evening News Association, 1922), by Detroit News (Firm) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• You're on the Air (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by Graham McNamee and Robert Gordon Anderson, contrib. by Heywood Broun (multiple formats at Google)
• Masters of Space: Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cable; Bell and the Telephone; Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph; Carty and the Wireless Telephone (1917), by Walter Kellogg Towers (Gutenberg text)

• 73 Magazine (Amateur Radio Today) (1960-2003) (partial serial archives)
• The Buffalo Evening News Radio Guide for Beginners (c1922), by Raymond F. Yates (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Learning the Radiotelegraph Code (first edition; West Hartford, CT: American Radio Relay League, 1942), by John Huntoon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Radio Alphabet: A Glossary of Radio Terms (New York: Hastings House, 1946), by Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Radio Design Practice (Malden, MA: J. Millen Inc., 1935), ed. by James Millen, illust. by M. B. Sleeper (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Servicing Superheterodynes (revised edition; New York: J. F. Rider, c1934), by John F. Rider (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Servicing Receivers by Means of Resistance Measurement (New York: Radio Treatise Co., c1932), 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)
• How to Use Signal and Sweep Generators (first edition; New York: J. F. Rider, c1953), by J. Richard Johnson (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Study Guide and Reference Material for Commercial Radio Operator Examinations (Washington: GPO, 1955), by United States Federal Communications Commission (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• History of Radio to 1926 (New York: American Historical Society, c1938), by Gleason L. Archer
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at worldradiohistory.com
• My Inventions (as published in 1919 in The Electrical Experimenter), by Nikola Tesla (HTML at teslaplay.com)

• The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone (New York: Hurst and Co., n.d.`), by Richard Bonner, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Curlie Carson Listens In (Chicago: Reilly and Lee, c1922), by Roy J. Snell (Gutenberg text)
• The Radio Detectives (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by A. Hyatt Verrill
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Radio Detectives in the Jungle (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by A. Hyatt Verrill
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Radio Detectives Under the Sea (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by A. Hyatt Verrill
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Government Control of Radio Communication: Hearings Before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 13158, a Bill to Further Regulate Radio Communication, December 12, 13, 17, 18, and 19, 1918 (Washington: GPO, 1919), by United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (multiple formats at Google)

• Annual Report, by United States Federal Communications Commission (partial serial archives)
• National Radio News (partial serial archives)
• Radio News (full serial archives)
• Radio Times (full serial archives)
• Radio Craft (partial serial archives)
• Radio (successor of Pacific Radio News; 1921-1947) (partial serial archives)
• 73 Magazine (Amateur Radio Today) (1960-2003) (partial serial archives)
• Radio Digest (partial serial archives)
• L'Onde Électrique (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Radio Age, ed. by Frederick Arthur Smith (full serial archives)
• The Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television (partial serial archives)
• Pacific Radio News (full serial archives)
• Radio Amateur News, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (full serial archives)
• Electrical Communication (partial serial archives)
• Television News, ed. by Hugo Gernsback (full serial archives)
• Jahrbuch der Drahtlosen Telegraphie und Telephonie (partial serial archives)
• Modern Electrics (partial serial archives)

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