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(n. p.), [San Francisco]: [Federal Telegraph Company], (n. d.), circa 1920. Good. 18-3/4 x 14-3/4 inches. Mounted photograph, in a black wooden frame with an engraved metal plaque. Light soiling and toning; three approximately nickel-sized spots of loss to photographic overlay; frame somewhat scuffed and worn. Large photograph showing one of the Federal Telegraph Company's 100 KW antenna loading inductors, with a man in work clothes standing beside it for scale.

[Palo Alto], 1925. Good+. 8-3/4" x 11". [4], 76 pp, recto only. Red cloth stamped in black, illustrated with 34 blueprint figures (lacking #18 but with two of #17), including 12 full-page and one fold-out figure. Lightly worn, with damp-spotting and darkened spine; missing front endpaper; minor staining from paste to occasional leaves. Signed by Fullerton in ink at the end of the Introduction. An interesting student thesis on the practical use of hybrid coils in telephony by Dick P. Fullerton, a Seattle native who worked for Western Electric and would later become president of the New York Telephone Company. Shortly after transfering to the latter company, he assisted Stanley S. N. Watkins in his preparation of the Voder machine for demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair.The thesis is divided into three parts: "The first is a general discussion of the hybrid coils and their use in telephone work. The second part is a mathematical analysis of the three chief relations in a hybrid coil, and the… Read More