Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook

by Forrest M. Mims III

The book features:

carefully hand-drawn circuit illustrations
hundreds of fully tested circuits
tutorial on electronics basics
tips on part substitutions, design modifications, and circuit operation

All covering the following areas:

Review of the Basics
Digital Integrated Circuits
MOS/CMOS Integrated Circuits
TTL/LS Integrated Circuits
Linear Integrated Circuits
Index of Integrated Circuits
Index of Circuit Applications

156 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1986

About the author

Forrest M. Mims III is an amateur scientist, magazine columnist, and author of the popular Getting Started in Electronics and Engineer's Mini-Notebook series of instructional books that was originally sold in Radio Shack electronics stores. Mims graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 with a major in government and minors in English and history. He became a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force.

Although he has no formal academic training in science,Mims has had a successful career as a science author, researcher, lecturer and syndicated columnist.

Reviews

[Chad Gayle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I spent so many summer afternoons with this book when I was 13. Built several of the 555 and 748 circuits and dreamed of logic gates in my sleep, but I lost my copy, which had brown soldering iron burns on a number of its pages, long long ago.

[Darcy · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome book! full of helpful schematics that can be combined to make some really neat insturments

[Shirley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent introduction to circuit design.