“Radio and Television” from the Macdonald Junior Reference Library

An old childhood book I found recently was “Radio and Television” from the Macdonald Junior Reference Library. Published in 1969, my copy was the 1972 reprint. It cost 45p new, but mine was bought for 20p in 1979 when it was withdrawn from stock at Rutland library.

The illustrations are really nice. The text is mostly an encyclopedia style collection of terms related to radio and television technology. The terms are alphabetically sorted and seem to have been somewhat randomly chosen.

There is a big mistake on page 43 in the example of resistors in parallel. That was obvious to me when I looked through the book as an adult. I am surprised that the editors didn’t notice.

I remember even as a child I liked the look of the book, but was disappointed by the limits of the encyclopedia format.