August 1944 Radio-Craft
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August 1944 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.

August 1944

Vol. XV, No. 11

New Letter Contest for Servicemen	644
Remote Control Weapons, by Hugo Gernsback	649
Harold Beverage of Eponymously Named Antenna Type	650
Major Armstrong Receives Award from Army Signal Corps	650
A Radial-Beam Tube, by I. Queen	653
Sally, the Service Maid: The Case of the Dual Volume Control, by Nate Silverman	657
Transmission Lines, by M. N. Beitman	668
Electronic Tube Symbols, by Carl E. Winter	672
Electronics-Themed Comics	671, 684, 694, 703

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