Vintage Popular Electronics Magazine Articles

People old and young enjoy waxing nostalgic about and learning some of the history of early electronics. Popular Electronics was published from October 1954 through April 1985. In January 1972, Electronics World magazine was combined with Popular Electronics. For all of the articles posted a page is created with a cover image and the table of contents.


As time permits, I will be glad to scan articles for you. All copyrights (if any) are hereby acknowledged.

Carl & Jerry: Electronic Shadow      September 1957 Radio Keeps You in Touch      September 1957 Color TV Today      September 1957 How Far Can You Go in Electronics Without a Degree?      September 1957 Spreading the Stations with CSSB      November 1957 Oscilloscope Traces: Square Waves      November 1957 How NOT to Use Transistors       September 1959 Understanding Transistor Circuits       August 1959 Unpopular Electronics       August 1959 Test Instruments Part 6: The Vacuum Tube Voltmeter       July 1959 Inside the Hi-Fi Tone Arm       February 1960 A Primer on Capacitors - What Is a Capacitor?       October 1954 Short-Wave Report: Reception Versus Jamming       April 1959 Radio Control Installations       February 1955 The Ear and High Fidelity       March 1959 How to Align Receivers       October 1954 Lissajous Had a Figure for It       March 1957 Electrolysis and Corrosion       July 1960 ON THE AIR with The Civil Air Patrol       March 1957 Radio Control of Models       October 1954 Magnetic Amplifiers: That They Are, What They Do       July 1960 FCC Report       July 1960 Electronic Wife       January 1955 The Tuning Eye How It Works       January 1955 How to Make Power Transformer Substitutions       April 1959 Recent Developments in Battery Design       July 1959 Operation Radio Airwatch       July 1959 A Transmitting Tube is Born       April 1959 Radar and Loran       July 1959 Army Recruitment Advertisement       July 1959 Transistor Topics       February 1960 Nuvistors and Micro-Modules       June 1959 Radio Waves, Sunspots, and Planets       June 1959 Build a Dual-Meter Transistor Tester       February 1960 One Transistor Pocket Radio       October 1960 How the Cathode-Ray Tube Works       February 1955 How Magnetic Tape is Made       February 1955 After Class Using Inductors       December 1957 Among the Novice Hams       December 1957 Crossword Puzzle       December 1957

The Magic of Cross-Country Communications      September 1959 Computers Yesterday and Today       February 1960 Meet the Transistor       January 1955 Inside the Power Amplifier, Part 1       July 1959 Build an Electroscope       July 1955 A "WAVE" in Naval Electronics       March 1957 3 and 4 Finger R/C Escapements       January 1955 Meet Popular Electronics       October 1954 Light Emitting Diodes       November 1970 A Question of Semantics       October 1970 Instrumenting an Earth Satellite       October 1958 Put PEP in Your Antenna Tuner       October 1958 Transistor Topics       December 1957 Solar Battery       October 1954 Tricks of the Trade       October 1954 After Class Power Transformers       August 1955 Behind the U.L. Label       August 1955 "Over the Horizon" Transmission       August 1955 What is an Audio Watt?       August 1955 Lingo of the Schematic       August 1955 Build This Novice CW Transmitter       February 1955 Return of the Prodigal Ham       February 1955 Doppler Radar Charts the Airplanes       May 1959 E, I R, and P Chart       December 1954 Oscilloscope Traces       December 1957 After Class: Alternating Current Principles       December 1954 Father of Radar Gets His Reward from Patent Office       December 1957 Printed Circuits Come of Age       December 1957 Emergency Radio Truck Covers Detroit Area       December 1954 After Class Speaking of Magnetism       October 1958 Simple RF Meter       October 1958