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Soemeone asked info about books on the subject Vacuum Tubes (VT). Here
are some I own or know:

ARRL Handbook (1990 ed. I think): Has some information on VT but is very
concentrated. However is an excellent pratical book. The tube
applications are directed mainly to RF transmitters and Receivers, not
to Audio Applications (my main interest...).

Millman: "Vacuum-Tube and Semiconductor Electronics", McGraw-Hill, (
from late fifties). Has a very good coverage on VT theory and
applications. I bought my copy recently, an ISE edition (in Portugal)
very cheap, forgotten in a library shelf :-). I think it is, perhaps,
the one I would recomend to buy, if it was available.

Millman and Halkias: "Electronic Devices and Circuits", McGraw-Hill,
(1967). I think the ISE edition is still sold. This book has 4 or five
chapters about VT physics and applications, but less than the former
Millman book.

Spangenberg:"Fundamentals of electron devices", McGraw-Hill (late
fifties?). Very good coverage of device physics, short of
applications, but valuable (I bought my copy reasonably cheap recently...).


Ryder:"Engineering Electronics", McGraw-Hill (sixties): treats
semiconductor and VT physics and applications with emphasis on the
first type. A good book with informetion on subjects hardly found in
others (induction heating, capacitor and inductor filtering in diode
rectifiers...).


Hazen:"Exploring Electronic Devices", Saunders College (1991). The
only recent electronics book I'm aware that considers the subject. It
has a chapter (19th) called "High Power Vacuum Devices in a
Solid-State World" with about 50 pages, well written and with good
explanation. 

Other books have short chapters on VT (Gray and Searle "Electronic
Principles" from John Wiley, for example).

NOTE: I do not represent any of the Book Editors. The fact that those cited
are mainly from McGraw-Hill is because in Portugal this is the only
house with a local office in Lisbon. So, their  books are available in
the librarys (inclusive the old ISE editions I cited).

	J. Augusto