American Radio History site

[peter scott]

Have you ever wondered how they scan journals?

[ppppenguin]

The technology is great but think of the countless hours of work. I get the impression that the site owner works more or less alone.

Fabulous site - we all owe him immense gratitude for making so much material freely available.

PS: It's now called the World Radio History site though the branding hasn't yet changed on all pages.
https://worldradiohistory.com/index.htm

[Kalee20]

Thanks Peter! And the scanning process produces searchable text, too.

It's an amazing site.

[peter scott]

David Gleason's resume is quite interesting.

Peter

[Crackle]

What a busy and interesting life.

Mike

[Craig]

This is the hardware that is behind the scenes https://worldradiohistory.com/Scanning-f...istory.htm

[Shuttle]

Might be worth adding here, David is always after contributions to the site. I’ve done a lot of scanning for him recently of old BBC stuff (BBC Sound Broadcasting - It’s Engineering Development and a quite a few others - including the post war valve sound desks), the Wireless World Circards from the 70’s and books like ‘Handbook of Technical Instruction for Wireless Telegraphists 1939’.
 
If you have anything that may be of interest, and can scan it (scanner doesn’t have to be anything exotic - i’ve got a bog standard Epson V370) then just read the guidelines on his site re: resolution etc and just email him (address under ‘contact us’ on the site).
 
I’ve mailed him a few more that I can’t scan as they would need an A3 scanner and they should appear soon (1930s Radio Times with some excellent radio adds for the time (Ecko etc.)
 
Just drop him an email and ask if he’s interested. . .

Arthur

[ppppenguin]

Good to know that others are helping David Gleason. Arthur, what BBC stuff did you scan? All the BBC Research reports, monographs etc are available on the BBC R&D website. Many TIs (circuit diagrams and other info about specfic items of BBC equipment) are available here: http://www.bbceng.info/

My modest contribution is a missing issue of Practical TV magazine.

An A3 scanner is very useful but a lot of professional documentation is on even larger sheets. Either multiple fold-out that's the height of A4 or A2 and upwards. In many cases it can be done tediously with multiple A3 scans, stitched together but a true large format scanner would make things a lot easier.

[Shuttle]

These are the ones I've done recently;


BBC-Engineering Division Training Manual 1942
 
BBC Type B - Technical Instruction
BBC Valve radio studio desks used by BBC World Service 1958 - 1984

BBC Technical instruction R.9
Leevers-Rich Transportable Tape Recorder 1958
 
BBC Sound Broadcasting - It’s Engineering Development
Published in August 1962 to mark the 40th anniversary of the BBC

BBC External Services - 50 years of broadcasting to the world
A compilation of press coverage on BBC world service on the 50th anniversary (1932 - 1982)
given to all BBC external services employees in 1982
 
Ariel March 1938
BBC Staff Magazine

Ariel September 1967
BBC Staff magazine (launch of radio 1)


BBC Eng Inf Autumn 1981
Details of Royal Wedding coverage

I was aware of the BBC site - most of the stuff on there has been scanned by my brother-in-law Nick Cutmore - ex BBC Designs Department (I've already sent him most of my old manuals & notes)

Arthur