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Book Reviews
Storage Tubes
and Their Basic Principles
By M. Knoll and B. Kazan. Published (1952) by John Wiley, 440 Fourth Ave., New York 16. 143 pp. 34 illus. 6X9 in. Price $3.00.
Presumably the first text devoted exclusively to storage tubes, this book is useful to anyone concerned with the field. Of particular interest to television and motion picture engineers is the treatment of the iconoscope, the image orthicon and their relatives as particular cases of the genus storage-tube.
The writers first treat fundamentals, the electron bombarded "floating" surface, then definitions and basic operational methods. This is followed by a lucid treatment of the details of 23 individual storage tubes, suitably classified as to type. Ninety-nine references comprise the Bibliography, with the helpful innovation of a brief resume of the gist of each. Besides providing additional information this prevents "wild-goose-chases" after apparently promising titles.
Because the tubes are each treated in the same methodical manner, similarities and differences are easily grasped and can be quickly located when the book is used as a reference work. Storage tubes suitable for use with electronic computers are, of course, included, including the interesting case of the kinescope with the external electrode of metal foil.
Co-author Knoll is well known in the field and is responsible for four tubes that are treated impartially along with the rest.
The book is devoid of mathematical expressions, this aspect being treated in many of the citedA references. Informative circuit diagrams and the essentials of construction of the tubes are given.
In view of the modest price, anyone who must have an understanding of these devices can hardly afford to be without the book. — Harry R. Lubcke, Consulting Engineer, 2443 Creston Way, Hollywood 28, Calif.
1952-53 Motion Picture and Television Almanac
Published (1952) by Quigley Publications, 1270 Sixth Ave., New York 20, N.Y., i-1 + 1010 pp. (including advt.), thumb indexed, 6 X 9 in. Price $5.00.
This is another in the imposing procession of these annual reference volumes, this one giving an increased attention to the television field. Much of the preliminary work and planning for this volume was done by the late Maurice D. Kann who died on May 15, 1952.
With from three to eleven subsections where appropriate, the volume contains these sections: Who's Who in Motion Pictures and
Television Corporations Theatre Circuits Drive-In Theatres Television and Radio Pictures Services
Theatre Equipment Services and Materials Organizations The Government Case Codes and Censorship The World Market The Industry in Great Britain The Press Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures
Although not a technical or engineering book, this is a valuable and obvious source for data on many business and facilities aspects of the Society's field as well as a help in another amusement activity — settling a discussion. — V.A.
High Speed Photography Issue
This is a special number of the Scientific Section of The Photographic Journal for Sept.-Oct. 1952. The release describing this issue advises:
"It is claimed that this publication brings this very important subject completely up to date and it is a source of reference which every firm, government department, laboratory, educational insti
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