Born | John Francis Rider 1900 |
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Died | 1985 Miami, Florida |
Nationality | USA |
Occupation | Acting Director (Signal Corps Publication Agency, US Army), Radio Engineer, Author and Publisher |
Known for | Publishing yearly volumes of the 'Perpetual Troubleshooter's Manual' 1931-1954 |
Title | Lt. Col. John F. Rider, Signal Corps, US Army (Ret.) |
Spouse(s) | Florence Rider, Born approx. 1907, New York |
Children | Janet Rider, Born approx. 1932, New York |
Call-sign | W2RID |
Awards | Legion of Merit (February 1946) |
Title | Earliest Publication Date | Co-Author | Comment |
The Mathematics of Radio | 1929 | ----- | |
A.C. Tubes And How To Use Them | 1929? | ----- | Need to confirm the earliest publication date. |
Trouble Shooter's Manual: Volume II, The Service Man's Manual | 1929 | ----- | Pre-Perpetual Trouble Shooter's Manual. Bound, Soft Cover. |
A Treatise on Testing Units for the Service Men | 1929 | ----- | |
Sound Pictures And Trouble Shooter's Manual | 1930 | James R. Cameron | Cameron Publishing Company. James R. Cameron introduces John F. Rider as a new writer to readers of motion picture text books. |
Practical Testing Systems | 1930 | ----- | |
Practical Radio Repairing Hints | 1931 | ----- | |
Servicing Superheterodynes | December, 1931 | ----- | This is the Original Edition, 1st Printing. The Revised Edition, 1st Printing July, 1934 |
Servicing Receivers by means of Resistance Measurements | 1932 | ----- | |
The Cathode-Ray Tube At Work | August, 1935 | ----- | |
An Hour A Day with Rider On: Automatic Volume Control | 1936 | ----- | |
An Hour A Day with Rider On: Resonance And Alignment | 1936 | ----- | |
An Hour A Day with Rider On: D-C. Voltage Distribution In Radio Receivers | 1936 | ----- | |
An Hour A Day with Rider On: Alternating Currents In Radio Receivers | 1937 | ----- | |
Aligning Philco Receivers | 1937 | ----- | Volume I |
Automatic Frequency Control Systems | 1937 | ----- | |
Servicing By Signal Tracing | 1939 | ----- | |
FM: An Introduction To Frequency Modulation | March, 1940 | ----- | |
The Oscillator At Work | 1940 | ----- | |
The Meter At Work | December, 1940 | ----- | Split-Book, Upper is for illustrations, Lower is for text. |
Vacuum Tube Voltmeters | 1941 | ----- | |
Automatic Record Changers and Recorders | 1941 | ----- | |
Aligning Philco Receivers: Volume II | 1941 | ----- | |
Frequency Modulation | 1943 | ----- | |
Inside The Vacuum Tube | 1945 | ----- | Illustrated by Baxter Rowe. Stereoscopic Effect on Anaglyphs facing pages 9, 37, and 122, by using included Red/Blue Spectacles. |
RADAR: What It Is | 1946 | George Clemens Baxter Rowe | An easily understood explanation - How it did its job. |
Understanding Vectors and Phase | 1947 | Seymour Uslan | |
Television: How It Works | June, 1948 | ----- | |
Installation and Servicing Low Cost Public Address Systems | 1948 | ----- | |
Rider Public Address Equipment Manual: Volume I | 1948 | ----- | |
Volume 1 and 2 Rider's Television Manual | 1949 | ----- | |
Encyclopedia of Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes and Their Uses | 1950 | Seymour Uslan | |
Radio Troubleshooting Guidebook | 1954 | J. Richard Johnson | |
Obtaining & Interpreting Test Scope Traces | 195? | ----- | |
Magnetism and Electromagnetism | 1959 | ----- |