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[Palo Alto], 1925. Good+. 8-3/4" x 11". [4], 76 pp, recto only. Red cloth stamped in black, illustrated with 34 blueprint figures (lacking #18 but with two of #17), including 12 full-page and one fold-out figure. Lightly worn, with damp-spotting and darkened spine; missing front endpaper; minor staining from paste to occasional leaves. Signed by Fullerton in ink at the end of the Introduction. An interesting student thesis on the practical use of hybrid coils in telephony by Dick P. Fullerton, a Seattle native who worked for Western Electric and would later become president of the New York Telephone Company. Shortly after transfering to the latter company, he assisted Stanley S. N. Watkins in his preparation of the Voder machine for demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair.The thesis is divided into three parts: "The first is a general discussion of the hybrid coils and their use in telephone work. The second part is a mathematical analysis of the three chief relations in a hybrid coil, and the… Read More

Los Angeles: Robert Heinecken, (1985). Near Fine. 11-3/8 x 9 inches. [16]pp + wrappers. Stapled multicolored wrappers lettered in white. Color illustrations. Minor shelfwear to spine ends and corners, else fine. An unusual feminist artist's book that examines CBS's attempts in 1984 to find a female co-anchor for their Morning News program. Using TV stills of superimposed images of male and female anchors formed "at that exact moment when the studio cameras are switching from one person to another", Heinecken applies principles of physiognomy to suggest which pairing will be most successful. Potential anchors included Diane Sawyer, Jane Pauley, Joan Lunden, Susan Spencer, Jane Wallace, Connie Chung, Maria Shriver, Meredith Vieira, Carol Martin, Pat Collins, Phyllis George, and even, briefly, Vanessa Williams. These are shown paired primarily with Bill Kurtis and Steve Baskerville, the two male anchors on the program, with varying results.