MIT Radiation Lab series on CD-ROM?

[Tim Shoppa]

Has the MIT Radiation Lab series been scanned/digitized and made
available on CD-ROM? If so, let me know where to buy it. Poking
around Amazon and MIT websites didn't help.

I've picked up several paper volumes from technical libraries getting
shut down (Bell Labs in NJ was really useful, I got a lot of other good
older stuff there) and I wish I could justify the shelf space for a 28
volume series. But putting it all on CD-ROM would be so useful!

Tim.

 

[John Larkin]

Has the MIT Radiation Lab series been scanned/digitized and made
available on CD-ROM? If so, let me know where to buy it. Poking
around Amazon and MIT websites didn't help.

Yes. Lots of Google hits. ISBN 1-58053-074-5).

John

 

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Is this the old MIT Radar Lab series (which I know exists) or the MIT
Radiation Lab Series which, given that MIT doesn't operate a reactor to
my knowledge, seems improbable?

Harry C.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Yes. Lots of Google hits. ISBN 1-58053-074-5).

John

ISBN 1-58053-078-8


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Le Chaud Lapin]

From what I understand, there was building for radar, radiation, and
yes, a nuclear reactor. The building where radar was developed was
quite famous it seems. The other building, not so famous, I heard was
left mostly uninhabited until the early 1990's after which it was
demolished. And if my memory serves me correctly, if you walk down the
tourist route from M.I.T. to Harvard, a couple blocks up on the left,
not far from a food shop, there is a giant green dome with uncommonly
thick cement walls that looks like the casing for some sort of reactor.

-Chaud Lapin-

 

[Winfield Hill]

Spehro Pefhany wrote...

ISBN 1-58053-078-8

WebBooks - List price: $325 ... "Sorry! This CD is
currently out of print; no reprint has been scheduled."

Artech House - $ 403

reiters.com - $ 403

Ouch!

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

yes, a nuclear reactor. The building where radar was developed was
quite famous it seems. The other building, not so famous, I heard was
left mostly uninhabited until the early 1990's after which it was
demolished. And if my memory serves me correctly, if you walk down the
tourist route from M.I.T. to Harvard, a couple blocks up on the left,
not far from a food shop, there is a giant green dome with uncommonly
thick cement walls that looks like the casing for some sort of reactor.

-Chaud Lapin-

Most universities have small nuclear reactors, no?

But anyway, EM radiation != nuclear radiation.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Tim Shoppa]

Is this the old MIT Radar Lab series (which I know

exists) or the MIT Radiation Lab Series

See, for example http://rleweb.mit.edu/radlab/radlab.HTM

seems improbable?

The printed copies on my desk are improbable, huh?

Tim.

 

[Jim Thompson]

yes, a nuclear reactor. The building where radar was developed was
quite famous it seems. The other building, not so famous, I heard was
left mostly uninhabited until the early 1990's after which it was
demolished. And if my memory serves me correctly, if you walk down the
tourist route from M.I.T. to Harvard, a couple blocks up on the left,
not far from a food shop, there is a giant green dome with uncommonly
thick cement walls that looks like the casing for some sort of reactor.

-Chaud Lapin-

The was a nuclear reactor right there on the corner of Vassar (or
maybe it was Albany... it's only been 43 years and Mass Ave.

There was also a diner there, which we affectionately called "The
Radioactive Grill" ;-)

That's pretty funny... "...TOURIST route from M.I.T. to Harvard..."
It was a slum when I was a student there... 1958-1962.

...Jim Thompson

 

[John Larkin]

Spehro Pefhany wrote...

WebBooks - List price: $325 ... "Sorry! This CD is
currently out of print; no reprint has been scheduled."

Artech House - $ 403

reiters.com - $ 403

Ouch!

Yeah, but a complete set of books will hit you a couple of grand. Or
thou. Whatever.

John

 

[John Larkin]

Is this the old MIT Radar Lab series (which I know exists) or the MIT
Radiation Lab Series which, given that MIT doesn't operate a reactor to
my knowledge, seems improbable?

Harry C.

They were/are the MIT Radiation Laboratory Series, 27 volumes, and
they are all about radar. "Radiation" was a WWII deception to hide the
actual function of the labs.

John

 

[Joe McElvenney]

Hi,

Is this the old MIT Radar Lab series (which I know exists) or the MIT
Radiation Lab Series which, given that MIT doesn't operate a reactor to
my knowledge, seems improbable?

The 28-volume 'MIT Radiation Laboratory Series' was published in the
late '40s and this is what is being referred to here. The word
'Radiation' was included in the name in the fall of 1940 to help coverup
what was actually being developed there. At the time atomic theory was an
open secret and so it was hoped this would deflect any unwelcome
interest; a large proportion of the initial team being physicists.

Over the last decade I have collected 24 of the series, only needing
"(5) Pulse Generators", "(6) Microwave Magnetrons", "(10) Waveguide
Handbook" and "(13) Propagation of Short Radio Waves" to complete the
set.

I live in hope.


Cheers - Joe

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Spehro Pefhany wrote...

WebBooks - List price: $325 ... "Sorry! This CD is
currently out of print; no reprint has been scheduled."

Artech House - $ 403

reiters.com - $ 403

Ouch!

It seems to get good reviews, and I've had the pleasure of perusing
John's set. I just ordered the CD version, we'll see.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Winfield Hill]

Spehro Pefhany wrote...

It seems to get good reviews, and I've had the pleasure of
perusing John's set. I just ordered the CD version, we'll see.

I purchased the entire original set from a fellow at the
MIT flea market a few years ago, paid about $700 IIRC,
and one of my friends said I'd overpaid.

I suppose the searchable aspect is useful. Are these nice
scanned .pdf files run through Adobe Capture, so they also
have the underlying searchable clip-board-copyable text?

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Spehro Pefhany wrote...

I purchased the entire original set from a fellow at the
MIT flea market a few years ago, paid about $700 IIRC,
and one of my friends said I'd overpaid.

I suppose the searchable aspect is useful. Are these nice
scanned .pdf files run through Adobe Capture, so they also
have the underlying searchable clip-board-copyable text?

The description I read refers only to searching by keywords.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[John Larkin]

Spehro Pefhany wrote...

I purchased the entire original set from a fellow at the
MIT flea market a few years ago, paid about $700 IIRC,
and one of my friends said I'd overpaid.

You didn't.

John

 

[[email protected]]

Thanks Joe. This is what I believed to be the case, but since it has
been at least 20 years since a saw any volume of this series, I had
forgotten that it was The Radiation Lab Series and not the Radar Lab
Series.

The old MIT Radar Lab is still alive and well, but now operating as
Lincoln Laboratories out of Hanscom AFB in Lexington. Another MIT
spinoff is Mitre Corporation in Burlington, MA.

Kindest regards, Harry C.

 

[[email protected]]

Spehro, sadly no.

The City of Cambridge, MA where MIT is located specifically prohibits
them, together with a prohibition on recombinational DNA research.
Still, this does not mean that either doesn't exist -- simply not
admitted to. Still, Cambridge clings to the false notion that it
remains an academic community!

So far as I am aware, the only operating nuclear reactor in the greater
Boston area is located at the University of Lowell, about 30-miles
northwest of Boston (and even they keep a very low profile in the local
community).

Harry C.

 

[[email protected]]

I've picked up several paper volumes from technical libraries getting
shut down (Bell Labs in NJ was really useful, I got a lot of other good
older stuff there)

Does this statement bother anybody else - Bell Labs' technical library
getting shut down? Maybe they've digitized everything they want or the
old stuff is no longer current enough to be useful, but it just sounds
like a bad idea. Solar cells and Unix have turned out to be pretty
handy; I hope there is still somebody around thinking stuff up.

Matt Roberds

 

[Jim Thompson]

Spehro, sadly no.

The City of Cambridge, MA where MIT is located specifically prohibits
them, together with a prohibition on recombinational DNA research.
Still, this does not mean that either doesn't exist -- simply not
admitted to.

There definitely was a living, working reactor there when I was a
student.

Still, Cambridge clings to the false notion that it
remains an academic community!

Sheeesh! Massa2shits is one of the most screwed up states. Shows
what can happen when THE CHURCH calls all the shots. And they
actually vote for Democrats up there ;-)

I got cited for driving nails on Sunday. But I skipped town before
that and the arrest warrant for refusing to pay the poll tax could be
brought to court.

I stopped at the Connecticut/M'ass line and pissed on Massa2shits ;-)

So far as I am aware, the only operating nuclear reactor in the greater
Boston area is located at the University of Lowell, about 30-miles
northwest of Boston (and even they keep a very low profile in the local
community).

Harry C.

...Jim Thompson