Classic nixie/neon books in reprint...

[Nick]

JB Dance, "Cold Cathode Tubes" available in reprint... Someone in India has reprinted this for GBP 20 plus postage etc.

Might be of interest to those that want a hard copy - cannot vouch for quality though...

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=12067424888&cm_mmc=B-_-5-_-A-_-A

Also, DM Neale, "Cold Cathode Tube Circuit Design":

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=12067440634&quserid=GIANBOOK&qtit=cold+cathode&qsort=&page=1

They may have reprinted others - I haven't checked...

Nick

[Nick]

• B: Alphanumeric Displays. Weston, George Frederick and Bittleston, R. 1982. (UK) Granada Technical Books Ltd. (US) McGraw-Hill. TK7882.I6W47, 621.3819'532, LoC# 82-22846, ISBN 0-07-069468-0.
  Chapters: 1) Presentation of Visual Information. 2) Display Requirements. 3) Addressing Techniques. 4) Display Technologies. 5) Scanned Displays. 6) Matrix Displays. 7) Drive Circuits. 8) Encoding and Data Organisation. 9) Applications.
• B: Cold Cathode Glow Discharge Tubes. Weston, George Frederick. 1968. (UK) ILIFFE Books Ltd.
  The "BIBLE" of how nixie tubes work (plus other neon and gas-filled tubes). Chapters: 1) Townsend's Ionisation Coefficients. 2) Breakdown at Low Pressures. 3) The Glow Discharge. 4) Cathodic Sputtering. 5) The Temporal Growth and Decay of a Discharge. 6) Stabilisers and Reference Tubes. 7) Switching Diodes and Trigger Tubes. 8) Stepping Tubes. 9) Indicators and Display Tubes.
• B: Cold Cathode Tubes. Dance, John Brian. 1967. (UK) ILIFFE Books Ltd., London.
• B: Digital Counters and Computers. Bukstein, Ed. 1960. Rinehart & Co., Inc. LoC # 60:6499.
  "A complete description of the theory, design, and application of digital counters and computers, including the interpretation and use of their output." Includes sections on number systems, logic, arithmetic circuits, binary and decade counters, readout indicators and special counter tubes, storage, I/O, computer control (programming), analog <-> digital converters, and applications.
• B: Display Electronics. Tracton, Ken. 1977. Tab Books. Hardbound ISBN 0-8306-7861-1. Paperbound ISBN 0-8306-6861-6. LoC # 77-79348.
  Chapters: 1) Photon Emission, Transmission and Detection. 2) The Light-Emitting Diode. 3) The LED in Use. 4) Arrays and Displays. 5) New Displays and Photosensitive Devices. 6) Electroluminescence. 7) The Injection Laser Diode. 8) Optoelectronic Projects. 9) Designing with LEDs.
• B: Electronic Counting Circuits. Dance, John Brian. 1967. (UK) ILIFFE Books Ltd./American Elsevier. LoC # 67:13048
  Many and major references to nixies etc. throughout this excellent book. Chapters: 1) Introduction. 2) Electromagnetic Counters. 3) Single cathode gas filled counting tubes and their circuits. 4) Multi-electrode gas filled counting tubes and their circuits. 5) E1T decade counting circuits. 6) Beam switching tubes. 7) Valve scaling circuits. 8) Solid state scaling circuits. 9) Ratemeter circuits. 10) Readouts. 11) Nuclear counting and instrumentation. 12) Further applications of counting circuits. Appendix) Valve equivalents and near equivalents.
• B: Electronic Displays. Bylander, E. G. Opto-Electronics Department, Texas Instruments Inc. 1979, McGraw-Hill. TK7882.I6B94, LoC# 78-31849, Hardbound ISBN 0-07-009510-8.
  Chapters: 1) Introduction to Electronic Displays. 2) Electronic Display Fundamentals. 3) Display Human Factors. 4) Gas Discharge Displays. 5) The Visible Light-Emitting-Diode Display. 6) Vacuum Fluorescent Display. 7) Liquid Crystal Displays. 8) The Incandescent Display & the Cathode-Ray-Tube Display.
• B: Electronic Displays. Sherr, Sol. 1979. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. TK2882.I6S49, 621.3819'534, LoC# 78-10390, ISBN 0-471-02941-6
  Chapters: 1) Perceptual Factors. 2) Cathode-ray Devices. 3) Matrix and Alphanumeric Displays. 4) Cathode-ray-tube Systems and Equipment. 5) Alphanumeric and Matrix Systems and Equipment. 6) Applications. 7) Performance Evaluation.
• B: Using and Understanding Miniature Neon Lamps. William G. Miller. 1969. Howard W. Sams & Co. Ltd. LoC # 69-16778
  "This book is offered to present the student, hobbyist, technician and engineer with a more complete account of the properties of neon lamps and to acquaint them with some of the many ways in which neon lamps can be utilised". Eight chapters over 127 pages including ones on indicators, regulators, oscillators and counters, computer circuits and so on.
• B:" Cold Cathode tube circuit design" Neale D.M. published 1964 (GB) by Chaucer Press Ltd and 1965 (USA) D Van Nostrand Inc
  Chapter cover the evolution of the cold cathode tube, gas discharge, diodes, stabilisers and reference tubes, trigger tubes, arc discharge tubes, stepping tubes and register and display tubes. The book is perhaps unusual as it contains many design procedures and work examples in full.

[JohnK]

Thanks for that; but the email is quite weird looking - I copy/pasted into word pad and is now quite readable.

 

John K

Australia

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[Dan Hollis]

Looks like you can read it online?

https://archive.org/details/ColdCathodeTubes

-Dan

On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Nick wrote:

> Someone in India has reprinted this for GBP 20 plus postage etc.
>
> Might be of interest to those that want a hard copy - cannot vouch for
> quality though...
>
> http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=12067424888&cm_mmc=B-_-5-_-A-_-A
>

> Nick

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[Dave Brown]

You can download it as a pdf from there too, as well as a few other
formats.
DaveB, NZ

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[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Dave Brown at 2014-01-10 06:51 ...

> You can download it as a pdf from there too, as well as a few other
> formats.

I did just that :-) Now in my ever-expanding library of out-of-print
material.

Go, the scanners!


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[Nick]

On Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:52:27 UTC, bani wrote:

Looks like you can read it online?

https://archive.org/details/ColdCathodeTubes

Yup - the online versions have been around for a few years - there are many other classic engineering/scientific texts available as PDFs too...

However, some folk like to have hard-copy (as I mentioned in the original post), so this is a cheap(ish) source - original copies are now a) rare, and b) expensive (typically $60 and more each).

Nick

[Dan Hollis]

I suspect these hardcover reprints from india are just made from the PDFs.

-DAn

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