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75 comments on The Oil Drum BookCollage -#2 of 3 - "Human Capital", How-to Books, etc.
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Thanks Nate for the repost!
There's no one authour for mine, it's old as. The frontspiece reads,
THE
COMPLETE
HANDYMAN
Home Repairs
Decorations and Constructions
Illustrated
The Sun News-Pictorial
Melbourne
It has no publication date, but I'd put it in the late 1940s at the latest - one of the projects they suggest is,
"Directions for making and simple and inexpensive type of cabinet, suitable for housing a three-valve set having an external loud-speaker [...] The cabinet is large enough to take the high- and low-tension batteries."
They also refer to batteries as "accumulators"; I believe this term faded out in the 1950s. They also, in the context of changing the acid in a lead-acid battery, expect the reader to know what "specific gravity" means.
I value the book because, as I said, it assumes the reader knows something, but also because it focuses on lower-tech solutions to things - the sorts of solutions we will probably have more of post peak fossil fuels.
Kiashu,
Thanks just bought one on ebay and am waiting eagerly.
I'm surprised it was available! But looking on ebay, I find another for sale (perhaps gone by the time anyone clicks that link, but still).
I got mine on ebay.co.uk since i am not in Oz.