Electronic Bibliography

(bibliographic resources and references for electricity and electronic words)

The purpose of this Word Info site is to enlighten the uninformed, to correct the misinformed, and to serve as a beacon of illumination in the wilderness of the unknown with a literacy and a quality of information for everyone.


Information for the electric and electronic compilations came primarily from the following sources:

  1. Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Edited by Christopher Morris; Academic Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers; San Diego, California; 1992.

  2. American Heritage Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary; Houghton Mifflin Company; Boston; 1987.

  3. Asimov's Chronology of Science & Discovery, Isaac Asimov; Harper & Row, Publishers; New York; 1989.

  4. Asimov's New Guide to Science, Isaac Asimov; Basic Books, Inc., Publishers; New York; 1984.

  5. Communication Electronics, Louis E. Frenzel, Jr.; McGraw-Hill Publishing Company; New York; 1989.

  6. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 29th Edition; W.B. Saunders Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1994.

  7. Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, General Editor, James Trefil; Routlede, an imprint of Taylor & Fancis Books, Inc.; New York; 2001.

  8. Gould Medical Dictionary, Fourth Edition; McGraw-Hill Book Company; New York; 1979.

  9. International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology, Editor in Chief, Sidney I. Landau; Volume I; Churchill Livingston; New York; 1986.

  10. Isaac Asimov Words of Science and the History Behind Them, Isaac Asimov; Houghton Mifflin Company, Publishers; Boston; 1959.

  11. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Editor in Chief, Sybil P. Parker; McGraw-Hill Book Company; New York; 1989.

  12. McGraw-Hill Electronics Dictionary, Fifth Edition, John Markus, Neil Sclater; McGraw-Hill, Inc.; New York; 1994.

  13. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, Editor in Chief, Sybil P. Parker; McGraw-Hill, Inc.; New York; 1992.

  14. Modern Dictionary of Electronics, Sixth Edition, Rudolf E. Graf; Howard W. Sams & Company Publisher; Indianapolis, Indiana; 1988.

  15. Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th Edition; Mosby Elsevier; St. Louis, Missouri; 2009.

  16. New York Public Library Science Desk Reference, The; Editorial Director, Patricia Barnes-Svarney; A Stonesong Press Book; New York; 1995.

  17. Random House Unabridged Dictionary; John Wiley and Sons Inc.; New York; 1999.

  18. Reader's Digest Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary; The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.; Pleasantville, New York; 1987.

  19. Scientific American Science Desk Reference, Second Edition; Editor in Chief, Stuart Berg Flexner; Random House, Inc.; New York; 1993.

  20. Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition; Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; Baltimore, Maryland; 2006.

  21. Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Edition 18; Edited by Clayton L. Thomas, M.D., M.P.H.; F.A. Davis Company; Philadelphia; 1997.

  22. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition; Houghton Mifflin Company; Boston, New York; 2006.

  23. The Guinness Encyclopedia, Editor, Ian Crofton; Guinness Publishing, Ltd.; London, England; 1990.

  24. The Sciences, An Integrated Approach, Fourth Edition; James Trefil and Robert M. Hazen; John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; Hoboken, New Jersey; 2004.

  25. Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, Seventh Edition; Douglas M. Considine, P.E., Editor and Glenn D. Considine, Managing Editor; Van Nostrand Reinhold; New York; 1989.

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