RHS Library

Magazines and Journals

For more specific information on holdings or to inquire about donations, contact:

RHS Librarian:

Brian Belanger

5730 Avery Park Drive

Rockville, MD 20855-1738

(301) 258-0708

bcbelanger@aol.com

 

Researches may visit the RHS museum to use the library and may make copies of items for a modest fee. On a time available basis, the librarian may be able to copy items for people who cannot visit the museum in person.

In addition to the listings below, the RHS library has Rider Radio Manuals Volumes 1-22, Most Sams Photofacts, and manufacturer service manuals from companies such as DuMont, Hallicrafters, Philco, Zenith, and others.

 

 

All-Wave Radio

Publisher – Manson

(First published issue - September 1935)

 

Complete from September 1935 through June 1938

All issues good condition in binders

 

Antique Radio Classified

Publisher – Antique Radio Classified

 

Complete from January 1985 through November 2001

 

Antique Radio Gazette

Publisher – Antique Radio Club of America

 

Nearly complete from Vol. 1, No. 1 in 1972 through Vol 20., No. 4 in 1992. Missing only a few issues in the mid-1970s.

 

Antique Radio News (Italy)

 

Issue # 1, 1993 only

 

ARCA Gazette – See Antique Radio Gazette

 

Audio

Publisher – Radio Magazines, Inc.

 

Only a few issues available from 1955 through 1968.

 

Audiocraft

Publisher – Audiocon, Inc.

 

A few issues available, 1957-58.

 

Audio Engineering

Publisher – Audio Engineering

 

Feb., March, and June 1953 issues available.

 

Bell System Technical Journal

Publisher – AT&T

 

Nearly complete for the period 1942-1950.

 

CB Magazine

Publisher – Publishing Industries, Inc.

 

Only the Nov. 1966 issue available.

 

CD Capacitor

Publisher – Cornell-Dubilier

 

Nearly complete holdings from June 1940 through March 1961.

 

Computers and Electronics – See Popular Electronics

 

CQ

Radio Magazines, Inc.

 

Complete from 1945 to 1987 except for 1973-74.

 

Electronic Industries – See Tele-Tech

 

Electronic Servicing

Sams

 

Issues available: Oct. & Dec. 1970 and Sept. 1971.

 

Electronic Technician/Dealer

Publisher – Electronic Technician, Inc.

Formerly TV Technician

 

1957 through 1974, only scattered issues available.

 

 

Electronics

Publisher - McGraw-Hill

 

Issues available: May 1937 and Nov. 1954

 

Electronics Digest

 

Sept.-Oct. 1972 only.

 

 

Electronics Illustrated

Fawcett

 

Issues available: May 1965, March 1968, Jan. 1970.

 

Electronics World

Publisher: Ziff-Davis

Began in May 1959, was formerly Radio/TV News

 

Most issues available from May 1959 through Dec. 1971, sparser in the early years.

 

Elementary Electronics

Publisher - Science and Mechanics Publishing

 

Issues available: March-1969 and all of 1979 except July-August.

 

The Experimenter

Publisher – The Experimenter Publishing Co.

 

Issues Available: Dec. 1924, April 1925.

 

Frendx

Publisher – North American Shortwave Association

 

A few issues, 1983 - 1989

 

General Radio Experimenter

Publisher – General Radio History Society

1930-1934 – Some issues avaiable

1944-1962 – Most issues available

 

Ham Radio

Publisher – Communications Technology, Inc.

 

Issues available: March 1973

Complete from Jan. 1976 through June1990

 

Indiana Historical Radio Society Bulletin

Publisher – IHRS

 

Some issues, 1977-1979

 

MAARC Newsletter

Publisher – Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club

First issue, August 1984, Last issue, May 1994

Became Radio Age in June 1994

 

Almost complete from Aug. 1984 through May 1994.

 

Morsum Magnificat (The Morse Magazine)

Publisher – G.C. Arnold Partners

 

April and Dec. 1998

May 1999

 


National Radio News

(Became National Radio - TV News in the 1950s)

Publisher - National Radio Institute

 

Have 30th Anniversary Issue, Vol. 11, #5, 1944

 

National Radio - TV News

(Formerly National Radio News)

(Became NRI News in the late 1950s)

Publisher - National Radio Institute

 

Have a few issues from the 1950s

 

NRI Journal

(Formerly NRI News)

Publisher – National Radio Institute

 

Most issues, 1963-1980.

 

NRI News

(Formerly National Radio - TV News)

(Became NRI Journal in the 1960s)

Publisher - National Radio Institute, NRI

 

Most issues, 1960-1962

 

Old Timers Bulletin

Publisher – Antique Wireless Association

 

Issues available: Vol. 1, Numbers 2, 3

Nearly complete holdings, 1973-1999.

 

PF Reporter

Sams

 

Only scattered issues available, 1954-1967.

 

Popular Electronics

Publisher – Ziff-Davis

Became Computers and Electronics in Jan. 1983.

 

Scattered issues 1955 through 1981, mostly complete in later years.

 

Popular Radio

Publisher – Popular Radio, Inc.

 

Issues available: July, Sept., and Nov. 1923

 

Popular Science

Publisher – Modern Publishing Co.

 

One issue available – Oct. 1923

 

Proceedings of the IEEE –

See Proceedings of the IRE

 


 

Proceedings of the IRE

Publisher – IRE

(Became Proceedings of the IEEE in 1963)

 

Scattered issues, 1913-1970, with the last 40

years nearly complete.

 

QST

Publisher – American Radio Relay League

 

1921-1990, scattered issues, but most later years complete.

 

Radio

Publisher –Technical Publishers

 

1924-1947, Most years complete.

Missing 1932-33.

 

Radio Age – Note: There have been several publications using the name Radio Age

 

Radio Age (1920s publication)

Publisher – Radio Age, Inc.

 

Only issue available, May-June 1927

 

Radio Age (Don Patterson)

Publisher – Don Patterson

Publication ceased in Dec. 1993, but was resumed again in June 1994 by the Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club—see next entry.

 

Complete, 1976-1980

Scattered issues 1981-1990

Complete 1991-1993 (last issue Dec. 1993)

 

Radio Age (Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club)

Publisher – Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club

 

Complete, June 1994 though April 1999.

 

Radio Age (RCA)

Publisher – RCA

Started Oct. 1941, published four times per year.

 

Oct. 1941 through July 57 complete.

 

Radio Broadcast

 

Complete, 1926 through May 1929.

 

Radio Broadcast Advertiser

Publisher – Doubleday Page & Co.

 

March and Dec. 1925

Nov. 1926

 

Radio Bygones

Publisher – Friary Press

 

Complete from Aug.-Sept. 1989 through Aug.-Sept. 1995.

 

Radio Craft

Publisher - Technicraft

(Became Radio – Electronics in 1948)

 

Scattered issues, 1933-1946

Most issues, 1947-48.

 

Radio Design

Publisher – Radio Design Publishing Co.

 

Issues available: Vol. 1, No. 4 (1928) and Vol. 2, Nos. 1 & 3 (1929).

 

Radio Electronic Engineering

Publisher - Ziff-Davis

 

Issues available: Nov. 1949 & June 1954.

 


 

Radio Electronics

Formerly Radio-Craft

Publisher – Radcraft Publications

 

Scattered issues, 1948-1951

Complete 1952-1957

Scattered issues, 1958-1963

Complete 1964-1966

Scattered issues 1967-68

Complete 1969-1970

Scattered issues 1971-75

Almost complete 1976-1981

A few issues, 1982-1987

 

Radio Engineering

 

1930 Complete

Plus Feb. and March 1931

 

Radio Maintenance

Publisher – Boland & Boyce, Inc.

 

Sept. 1946 only.

 

Radio Mirror

Publisher – MacFadden Publications

 

One issue available – Sept. 1943

 

Radio News

Experimenter Publications

Later Teck Publications

In 1948, became Radio and Television News

 

Most issues 1923-1925

A few issues, 1925-1929

Complete, 1930-1931

Complete Jun. 1932 through June 1934

Some issues, 1935-1948

 

 

 

Radio and Television

Publisher - Popular Book Company

 

Dec. 1940 only

 

Radio and Television News

Publisher  - Ziff-Davis

Formerly Radio News

Became Radio and Television News in 1948

Became Radio-TV News in 1957

 

Scatttered issues, 1948-1957

 

Radio and Television Retailing

Publisher – Caldwell Clements

By 1948, includes Radio and Television Today

 

April 1939

June 1939 Service & Sound section

Aug. 1948

April & Sept. 1949

 

Radio-TV News-

Publisher  - Ziff-Davis

Formerly Radio and Television News (1957)

Became Electronics World in May 1959

 

Scattered issues, 1957-59

 

 

Radio Review

Publisher – The Wireless Press

First issue, Oct. 1919

 

Complete from Oct. 1919 through March 1922.

 

Radio Service Dealer

Publisher – Cowan

Later became Radio Television Service Dealer

 

Scattered issues, 1941-1942

 

Radio Today/Radio & Television Today

(Became Radio & Television Today in April 1939)

Publisher - Caldwell Clements

 

Nearly complete from Oct. 1936 through Oct. 1941

 

Radio Television Service Dealer

Publisher – Cowan

Formerly Radio Service Dealer

 

Oct. 1952 issue only.

 

Radio- TV Experimenter

 

Most issues, 1955-1969

 

Radio World

Publisher – Hennessy Radio Publications

 

Scattered issues, 1932-1938.

 

RCA Review

Publisher – RCA

 

Scattered issues,

1936-1986, some years complete

Some indices available

 

Sams Photofacts

Publisher – Howard Sams & Co.

 

Most folders up through #1300

 

Science and Invention

(Formerly Electrical Experimenter)

Publisher – Experimenter Publishing Co.

 

Scattered issues, 1920-1928.

 

Service

Publisher- Bryan Davis Publishing Co.

 

Scattered issues, 1932-1934

Complete 1935

Nearly complete 1938

Scattered issues 1940-42

Mostly complete 1952-1955

 

Short Wave Craft

Publisher – Gernsback

 

Complete, Dec. 1932 through dec. 1936.

 

Short Wave Radio

Publisher - Standard Publications

 

Dec. 1933 only

 

Sound Practices

Publisher – Sound Practices

 

Summer and Fall 1992

Early 1993

 

Successful Servicing

Publisher – John F. Rider

 

Sept.-Oct. 1940

Nearly complete, 1948-1952

 

Technician

Publisher – Caldwell-Clements

Formerly Television Retailing

 

Only issue available – Sept. 1953

 

Tele-Tech

(Formerly Electronic Industries)

Publisher – Caldwell Clements

 

Nov. 1949 issue only

 

TV Electronic Technician

Publisher – Caldwell-Clements

Became TV Technician in 1953

 

Scattered issues, 1952-1953

 

TV Technician

Publisher – Caldwell-Clements

Formerly TV Electronic Technician

Became Electronic Technician in Jan. 1959

 

Scattered issues, 1953-1957

 

Vail Correspondent

Publisher – Tom French

 

Oct. 1997 issue only.

 

The Wireless Constructor

 

Jan, May, June, July, Aug. 1925 issues available.

 

Wireless World

Publisher - Iliffe & Sons

 

July 1948 issue available.