My new book Microbreweries, Nanobreweries, and Brewpubs: Histories of 241 American Craft Beer Companies (ISBN: 978-1-4766-9085-8) is now available.
Yesterday, I noticed my Texas Instruments TI-30 "electronic slide-rule calculator" in a drawer in my house. I took it out of the simulated-denim case, and put in a fresh 9-volt transistor battery. I pressed the "ON/C" button, and it came on. For old-time sake, I took the square root of 2. As an Electrical Engineer, I took note that the first four digits "1.414" were correct. Therefore, I concluded that it still works. I purchased my TI-30 at Sugerman's in Eynon, PA. This store had been called "Sugerman's Eynon Drugstore", but many locals referred to it as "Up the Eynon." I made the purchase in September of 1979 after I began to study Electronics Technology at the Lackawanna County Area Vocational-Technical School - North Center on Old Plank Road in Mayfield, PA. That year, I attended "Vo-Tech" in the morning, and Mid-Valley Senior High School in downtown Olyphant in the afternoon. "North Vo-Tech" was closed many years ago. "South Vo-Tech" on Rockwell Avenue in Scranton is now called "The Career Technology Center of Lackawanna County." The Mid-Valley Secondary Center is in Throop. The little handle on the case came loose and fell off. I turned the case inside-out. While I was studying Electrical Engineering at the Worthington Scranton Campus of the Pennsylvania State University in Dunmore, and working on some problems a classmate asked me why my calculator case looked that way. I replied that it was my great-grandfather's calculator case. He brought it over from the Ukraine when he immigrated to the United States in the late 1890s. One classmate said, "Oh, how sweet." We all grinned and continued working on our problems.
My new book Microbreweries, Nanobreweries, and Brewpubs: Histories of 241 American Craft Beer Companies (ISBN: 978-1-4766-9085-8) is now available.
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I received the following HD Radio stations using my Insignia Model No. NS-HDRAD2 Tabletop HD Radio. I live in the Pinehurst section of the Jimmie Leeds Corridor of Galloway Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey.“HD Radio” is the brand name for the digital radio broadcast technology developed by iBiquity Digital Corporation. 90.1 WRTI Philadelphia, PA (Temple University) 92.5 WXTU Philadelphia, PA 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, PA 97.3 WENJ Millville, NJ
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Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 Many years ago, my grandmother and I found an old radio in her house. When we plugged it in and turned it on, all that we heard was a loud hum. She told me to take it and fix it. I took it home and put it on a shelf in my closet. About a month ago, I decided that I would fix it. I figured that the problem was the old dried-out electrolytic capacitors. I ordered new capacitors, and installed them. Turned on the radio and it works. There are two local AM stations that play music: Classic Oldies WMID at 1340 kHz (Atlantic City, NJ), and Kool 98.3 WBSS at 1490 kHz (Pleasantville, NJ). I can listen to the music in the same fidelity that I did when I was a kid. The AM radios that they make these days don’t sound as good as they used to. My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/strippens The Old School thebp.site/57084 I was enrolled in the Master of Science degree program in Electrical Engineering at Wilkes University from 1988 through 1991, and attended as a part-time student. During that time, I was employed fulltime at Loral Control Systems in Archbald, PA, and later at Laurstan in Carbondale, PA. I completed the program in the Fall Semester of 1991. Commencement was held in January of 1992. The program required a master's thesis. My thesis was entitled Power Measurements Under Nonsinusoidal Conditions. There are three print copies with signatures. I have one. There is one at the Engineering Department Office at Wilkes University. There is one in the Farley Library at Wilkes University. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25533223 I have the Word Perfect 5.1 file. I converted it to Microsoft Word, and put it in the Smashwords template to make it into an eBook. This eBook is available for FREE. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/600889 Smashwords made this eBook available through other eBook retailers. It is also available to libraries via OverDrive. https://www.overdrive.com/media/2538665/power-measurements-under-nonsinusoidal-condit So far there have been more than 70 downloads of Power Measurements Under Nonsinusoidal Conditions as an eBook. This blog post is the forum for questions and comments. Updated February 5, 2023 The first widely available consumer electronics item was the radio. Early radios had wooden cabinets and stood about two feet tall. Radios were meant to be placed on the floor and were the focal point of the living room or the parlor. These radios required an external aerial or an antenna. Reception was best with the aerial mounted outdoors. In the early twentieth century, there was only Amplitude Modulation (AM) radio. Home units were able to tune stations in the medium wave band between 540 kilohertz (kHz) and 1600 kHz. By the late 1950s and early 1960s there were tabletop AM radios. They had plastic cases and were much smaller than the original radios, but they needed to be connected to household electricity. These radios still used vacuum tube technology. With such technology, radios were not made much smaller than the one shown. The invention of the transistor allowed electronics to be made smaller. Transistor circuits can be designed to require less voltage, and to use less power than comparable vacuum tube circuits. This not only made electronics more portable; it made personal electronics possible. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, pocket transistor radios were popular. They were not as loud as table radios, but they were small. Because they ran off of a 9 Volt battery, you were able to use them anywhere. At the time most AM radio stations played music. Back label of the Vacuum Tube Radio, RCA Victor Model 3-RA-16 - There were five tubes: 35W4 - Rectifier 12BE6 - Heptode/Pentagrid tube in the Mixer/Oscillator 12BA6 - Pentode Intermediate Frequency (IF) Amplifier 12AV6 - Dual-Diode and Triode - AM Detector and Amplifier 50C5 - Audio Output Amplifier My beer website lager57.weebly.com/
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