Found at the friends of the library store today:

[stormgren]

"Operators' Wireless Telegraph & Telephone Hand - Book", Victor H. Laughter, 1918

Comments

[randomdreams]

The wireless telegraph book sounds *great*. Make one anyway and operate it like a pirate radio station.

[stormgren]

Merry Christmas:

http://books.google.com/books?id=7ck3AAAAMAAJ

It's been digitized and is on Google Books.

[stormdog]

I would so, so love to see a spark-gap transmitter operate. The actual functioning is probably over my head, regrettably, but I'd love to see one go. How awesome to have found that book... I'd have bought it too.