Warm up Your Soldering Iron!

[beamjockey]

It may no longer be socially acceptable, given the events of yesterday in Boston, to encourage young people to learn about electronics and rig up their own devices. But what the heck. I have news.


Carl and Jerry are back.

Jeff Duntemann, himself a prince of how-to literature, is collecting the stories of John T. Frye in a series of books, and Volume One is now for sale.

Jeff writes:

From 1954 through 1964, Popular Electronics published 119 adventures of Carl and Jerry, two teen boys with a passion for electronics and a knack for getting into and out of trouble with haywire lashups built in Jerry's basement. Better still, the boys explained how it all worked, and in doing so, launched countless young people into careers in science and technology. Now, for the first time ever, the full run of Carl and Jerry yarns by John T. Frye are available again, in five authorized anthologies that include the full text and all illustrations. This volume of 27 stories is the first of the five, and the remainder will be published over the course of 2007.

Comments

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link!

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Right, then! That goes on my list! Thanks for posting! ;]

[scarfman]

Uh, what happened in Boston?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

An Adult Swim advertising campaign featured LED blinkies which were mistaken for bombs. The city was paralyzed Wednesday afternoon. Take a google.

Somewhere, Orson Welles is smiling.

[scarfman]

Thanks.

(I thought of taking a Google, actually, but that was too late at night after too long a day for me to parse keywords.)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

That illo looks like it was drawn by Al Capp. :-)