Actually, Tom Swift pre-dates the 30's by a few years:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tom-Swift-and-His-Electric-Runabout-1910-Edition_W0QQitemZ7009566611QQcategoryZ29223QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


A bit before even my time but this is the earliest I've seen -- 1910.


Regards, Bob


And, yes, I was a huge Tom Swift fan in the 50's. All of us nerds
were. :=)


 On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:45:51 -0800, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

>
>On Feb 24, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Vitaliy wrote:
>
>> what did "doing electronics" mean to you back in 193x
>
>For reference, that's about the timeframe that the original
>"Tom Swift" books were published (these have apparently entered
>the public domain and the text is online these days.  Cool.)
>Electronics as we know it today may have been a bit ... unreachable,
>but plenty was possible in the realm of electricity, magnetics,
>motors, electrostatics, telegraphy, and the beginnings of radio
>and such...
>
>BillW

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