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June 1930 Radio-Craft
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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics.
See articles from Radio-Craft,
published 1929 - 1953. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
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At first I was going to comment
that using a wizard in an astrologer's robe to promote chemistry (alchemy, in
particular) as an example of
a career option does not seem like a good choice for appealing to serious prospects.
However, given the weirdness of a good portion of the population, it might be as
effective today as it evidently was nearly a century ago when the Chemical Institute
of New York ran this ad in Radio-Craft magazine.
Dr. T. O'Conor
Sloane, reputed head of the Institute, published such tomes as
The Standard
Electrical Dictionary,
How to
Become a Successful Electrician,
Arithmetic
of Electricity,
Electricity
Simplified,
Electric
Toy Making for Amateurs,
Fortunes in Formulas, and numerous others. BTW, I learned
from the ad that the word "adept"
is a noun as well as an adjective. Per Merriam-Webster: "a highly skilled or well-trained
person." As a noun, the accent is on the first syllable; as an adjective it is on
the second. Accordingly, an a'·dept is a·dept' at a particular skill.
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If You Want a Job with a Future, Get into Chemistry
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Posted November 13, 2023
(updated from original
post on 7/13/2016)
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