The Star Amateur Electrician: Scans of a Wonderful Book

This is, incidentally, exactly how I dress when I tinker…

Click here to read the whole book!

I found this little soft-covered gem in my aunt’s library. I immediately fell head-over-heels, and asked permission to borrow it. Consent was granted, and i quickly scampered home and got to scanning. I think everything is in the correct order, but please let me know if it’s not!

If you want to print it, read it off-line, etc, you can download a ZIP file containing all the higher-res scans here. Be forewarned, however, that it is rather large (25MB).

The copyright (and the publisher) is long gone, so you needn’t worry about any such things. I do, however, highly suggest purchasing a copy of this book if-and-when you come across it! There’s a certain unreproducible quality about an antique tome such as this…

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on February 10, 2007 at 3:27 am Comments (10)

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On February 15, 2007 at 9:06 am Tinkergirl said:

Beautiful. There’s just something about that Victorian style of typography that’s definitely missing these days. Curse them with their sanserif, easily read, websafe fonts!

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On February 15, 2007 at 1:12 pm jakeofalltrades said:

Curse them indeed! School would be so much more interesting if textbooks were printed like this…

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On June 12, 2007 at 3:17 pm rustyritz said:

Personally, I prefer a pinafore.

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On July 26, 2007 at 9:25 am wildrute said:

Just got one. 66 pages Copyright W.D. Boyce Co. – no date. On cover – Published by Johnson Smith & Co., Detroit, Mich.

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- On August 27, 2009 at 5:05 pm William said:
  
  I Have One
  Do You Know How Much They Are Worth ?
  
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On October 16, 2007 at 12:00 pm Keith said:

Could you re-post the high-res scans? I’m incredibly interested in getting the high-quality images, but, unfortunately, the filehost seems to have gone defunct . . .

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On December 18, 2007 at 9:27 am Datan0de said:

I second Keith’s request with great vigor! It would be great to take a closer look in a more transportable format. BTW, your site is absolutely spectacular, sir!

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On December 18, 2007 at 2:32 pm A Warning and a Plea « Jake of All Trades said:

[…] Flickr, etcetera, would you kindly email copies back to me? This includes the high-res version of this, as the admittedly-sketchy hosting service I used seems to have sketched right out of […]

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On March 4, 2008 at 9:29 am Ulfaen said:

I too would like to request the high-res scans file, should it ever become available again and yes, I agree, your site is a wonder!

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On December 14, 2009 at 8:41 pm Electrician said:

I love the victorian style, Amazing.

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