Alfred Morgan Revealed - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Do you really know much about your favorite Beginners Electronics author, Alfred P. Morgan? Let's take a deep dive in a couple of videos , then build one of his project favorites - The One Tube Regenerative Radio.
I kept his Boy Electrician (1st ed) out of our school library so much they called ME the Boy Electrician!
Great story and even though a lot of the experiments are dated, the fun of using stuff you can lay hands on around the shed and making a motor or radio is not lost.
Appropriate Engineering attire,,? Im just lovin this, Mike :) I recall books like this when I was in Jr High School 50 years ago. And I still have a few old breadboard projects around from my Science Fair days. Another early entrepreneur who published many different books and magazines on electronics and science that is worth looking at is, Hugo Gernsback.
Gernsbeck fueled the raging tech. Its simply amazing how fast those folks accepted technology in so few years. Makes us look pretty stodgy with all of the slow rolling cellphone and EV evolution.
Very informative and entertaining, Mike. Takes me back to those boyhood days when technology was everything and the sky was the limit.
I remember a number of these books from junior high in the early 70's.
Enjoyed this! Really looking forward to Part 2!
I enjoyed it. Thanks and 73's.
Thank you. That was very interesting.
I'd enjoyed this, great presentation
nice video, and tribute to Alfred P. Morgan
Thank you for watching!
Engineering attire - I love that! I need to find my old pocket protector. Great video. I always loved Alfred P. Morgan's books the best while growing up.
Proper Engineering Attire. Now they have romper rooms with balls you sit on discussing JIRA.
@@MIKROWAVE1 That and open concept offices where you cannot hear yourself think, along "free address" stations where you don't know where anyone is at any given time.
Thank you Sir
You've done a fine job of honoring a great thinker and doer. Morgan's Boy's first book of radio and electronics is what my father used to teach me technical skills in the early 1960s.
I truly appreciate your efforts through the years.
You and your content have blessed me more than you can imagine.
I had the pleasure of visiting with another great and inspiring author, Forrest Mimms.
Take care Sir,
73 de KF5HCR
I look at some of my first videos and I had hair!
I have all four of the Boys First Book... (First, Second, Third, and Fourth). They are worth quite a bit of $$ these days.
I too kept the Boy's First Book checked out of the grade school and Jr. High library. I loved those days! (Circa 1970s)
The books essentially launched my 45 year career in 2-way radio where I ended it retiring from Motorola Solutions (the radio part of Motorola) in 2021.
73, Jim W7RY
Nice to have a fellow Motorolan onboard. I worked in Special Applications Ft. Lauderdale and in a radio shop in Bozeman Montana. So I saw both sides.
Interesting to see that AMCO catalogue cover featured a British steam locomotive. The loco shown was built for the Great Western Railway's broad-guage (7feet) system. The broad guage was the idea of another great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The last sections of the GWR's broad-guage were converted to standard-guage in 1892.
Wow!
Fantastic presentation Mike! Wonderful research! We homeschooled our kids back in the '90s the Quincy approach to learning is basically what homeschoolers do.
I was very fortunate a few years ago to get get a copy of, "The Boys' First Book of Radio and Electronics" for $50. They usually go for at least $100 and I have no doubt that this video is going to boost the price up again!
Very interesting Thomas! Those old library books going for $100!
Yeah its just stupid, thats why when I get my hands on old out of print books like that I scan them in electronic form as a pdf and give them away for free for everyone to have a copy so these a-holes can't jack the price on some young person who wants that info to learn from. Its a rip off charging $100 for a $3 book. When they are readily available for free then those scalping a-holes can't get the high prices anymore. Many times they get the book for $3-$5 and mark them up to over $100.. thieves.
I will have to say when I was 11 years built a xtal set for grade 6 I went library picked up the boys first book of radio. grade 7 and 8 was building power supplies and crude receivers. got electrocuted couple times too.. Yes Morgan was very influential for me young boy to learn radio. easy understand reading. went on be a ham radio op too age 14 call ve4akf been ever since in electricity. made living to at it any way. buy some bread milk thanks Morgan. !
Any kid who does this stuff starts to think of himself as some kind of engineer. I found that it did not help with impressing girls, however.
Mike, I had no idea how pivotal Alfred P. Morgan was. A talented genius in his early 20's - his self-taught artistic ability is what I find extraordinary. These drawings were so instrumental to me, in getting started with radio and electronics. Such an incredible man! Thank you so much for this captivating video, your wonderful research, and fantastic presentation.
Those drawings were an inspiration for many of us!
Thank you for doing this series!
I enjoyed this greatly.🎉
👍Thanks Mike. Very interesting history of Alfred Morgan. Looking forward to hearing more about Morgan and Godley. Paul Godley may be of special interest to UK/Scottish hams.
I have a video on the Transatlantic transmitter 1BCG that you might enjoy. Godley is one of those radio gods for sure. Even more so Ross A.Hull, the Australian-American as a pivotal force in bringing ham radio from spark and piggy signals into the modern age of the 30s.
I didn't have a suit worthy of this, so I viewed after donning my best engineering clothing: A pair of brown pants, a sky blue short sleeve dress shirt and a 1970s wide tie. The video was wonderful too. 👍💡
That is a wide tie!
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Hi Mike very entertaining. I read Fun Time Radio Building, Building the Amateur Radio Station (Rider publication), and 10 edition of Collins Handbook when I was young. Total magic.
Great Channel and video! Can’t wait for part two!! You got me hooked on electronics, from knowing just enough to keep from electrocuting myself to working on all the old tube receivers/radios that keep finding their way into my garage! To getting my old ham call sign back from the mid 1980’s! Lol especially your Morgan regen videos, vintage tube rigs and of course the Command set/ARC-5’s are my all-time favorite! Thank you!
The ARC-5 Receivers were a miniature miracle of design.
@@MIKROWAVE1 for the time you are right, they were the tiny!! Lol
Mike, this was very educational, about the early historical years of electric and infant wireless radio. Wouldn't it be nice to time travel to that age and meet Alfred P. Morgan. I may have to look into buying the books.
It is amazing how fast Americans digested and got involved in such an alien technology - the acceptance rate was extraordinary.
Good one Mike. I just ordered the book. Frederick Collins is of interest to me -- I used to live in Congers NY, where he did many of his experiments. I used to run around Rockland Lake, where he apparently also did some very early telephony work. While his frustration with coherers was understandable, using dissected human brains as a replacement was probably a bit too much. Nice suit. I am thinking of getting some white lab coats myself. 73 Bill
Ha. Wow these guys were weird and loose at the turn of the century!
Thank you, I really enjoy the history and seeing all the gadgets. I was licensed in 1970 so just before the second wave of big changes. I haven' really seen a lot of history on the spark gap transmitters. I will have to take a look at these books and see how that all played out.
Thanks for watching.
I build the X-RAY machine (used old tube for X-Ray tube) from the book back in the 70s. This is fun video!
Have the Fire Service and hazmat team on standby! Honey you are just glowing tonight!
Thank you, Mikrowave, that was an awesome dissertation. As always, you kept me on the edge of the seat. I'm looking forward to the next one. 73 and good DX. Martin (callsign HI8MTS).
Thank you for watching Martin!
Loved those books when I was a kid.
If the library had them, you were hooked fast.
Love the knight kit star roamer there in the background, back in the 60's i built one, it worked, and had the morgan book from the school library, they don't have technical books anymore, ps got the tie on now too ki6cba
Sorry, Mike. I was already in my PJ's. I know, sacrilege. I hang my head in shame.
I'm on nightshirt and just woke up, I sat in the back with my coffee and PJs, hope it didn't offend anyone lol
I have heard of Alfred P. Morgan, but did not know anything about him. (Except, I think, you mentioning the "Morgan Regen" in some of your past videos.)
Which is strange, given that, I am an amateur ham and enjoy learning the history of radio.
I just started reading a biography of Hiram P. Maxim by Alice Schumacher.
Could you imagine naming a kid Hiram Percy Maxim and not expecting greatness?
I didn't know AMCO was Morgan. I bought books, code records, probably more from them in early 1960s. Jerry
Not sure if this was a retread of the name.
I grew up on the Boy's Books of Radio and Electronics series. They had copies of them in a library in the "housing project". The aquarium book was also very influential in my life, leading to a biology degree. There really weren't a lot of resources available to kids back then, so today a lot of us old guys remain connected by books like Morgan's. Some of us without engaged fathers benefited greatly from the simplicity and clarity of these books. KH6SKY
Wow powerful and inspirational story Jim. Sometimes your mentor is in fact a group of books and magazines!
Ham of 1910 was happy with 3000volts on the coil and capacitor and no safety whatsoever! Sparks flying out every time he keyed the transmitter
They were mad and I wonder if any hams actually slept. They even had a name for this. "A Hard Boiled Ham."
Great Video Mike!
I've been trying to get the Supply-house catalog but cannot find a link; do you have one for the PDF you showed?
Thanks & 73...
Go Nuts. worldradiohistory.com/Early-Radio-Catalogs.htm
14:17 AMCO Junior wireless key 75¢ ( 278.4 grains or 18 grams of pure silver )
16:04 telegraph keys
I got his Boy's Book of Motors Engines and Turbines as a kid in the 80s, discarded from the library. My son has made it his favorite book, and him and my dad have just built the steam engine. Chech out my UA-cam of it running!
For a minute there I thought you joined the Mafia!
Ha!
i have the green book in my apartment mess somewhere .ill whip out my slide rule. lol
My wife also had a slide rule for her biology work. But hers was fancy bamboo.
You also need a slide rule on your belt.
And a pocket protector!
Hey....I have a steam engine but I didn't get it from Amco
Pretty niche hobby for a big kid!
A tie? Appropriate clothing? 😂😂😂 surely you jest Mike!
I'm going to expect more from you all. I will be spot checking engineering notebooks for signatures and witness comments.
You keep saying we but I see no one else. Morgan and Collins are dead.
Its all YOU an ME Burt.
@@MIKROWAVE1 But I am not there.
@@MIKROWAVE1 And me!
Need to use the word 'Bonkers' far more often! G7VFY
I figured out why you are not sleeping and watching videos at all hours. Paparazzi's never sleep.