In this post, we will see the much-awaited book by E. Sedov Entertaining Electronics. The book is an amazing introduction to electronics. Though much of the technology has changed since the time the book was published (almost no vacuum tubes now), the book nonetheless remains a classic.The inside cover describes the book as such:An unusual book in form and content, demonstrating that electronics can be fun. Acquaints the reader with the history and development of this important branch of modern science and technology since the discovery of radio. Written with humour and simplicity. Should be in every school library. The author is a graduate of the Moscow Aviation Institute and an experienced popularizer of science.The book has some amazing line drawings which describe the physical phenomena very well. Unfortunately, the text does not provide the name of the artist who drew these illustrations.The book was translated from the Russian by Eugene Felgenhauer and was first published in 1973. The current scan is for the third reprint in 1984.PDF | OCR | Bookmarked | 359 pp. | Cover | 12.1 MB | 300 dpi (upscaled to 600 dpi)Link on the internet archive.Contents:Chapter I. ELECTRONS AND ELECTRONICS  9In this chapter the reader will learn about the history of the discovery of the electron and also why it was the fate of this very particle to become the main “component” of certain elec- 1ionic devices, which gave the first impetus to the development of electronics.Chapter II. HOW WERE WAVES DISCOVERED? 57Now the reader will see for himself that for electronics the electric field is no less important than the electron. He will get acquainted with waves, which were discovered before they could be detected, and will learn how radio could manage without electronics and what it was capable of.chapter III. ELECTRONS, WAVES, FIELDS 99How electrons came to be controlled with the aid of a field. About the co-operation between waves and electrons, which gave birth to world-wide radio communication.Chapter IV. UP THE FREQUENCY SCALE 181About how from year to year mankind kept mastering ever shorter and shorter waves, and what electronics had to go through when mastering super high frequencies.Chapter V. ELEMENTS OF “WISE” MACHINES 279How simple electronic-cells are employed to assemble complex circuits of “wise” machines.