Big Ear Two: Listening for Other-Worlds

by John Kraus and John D. Kraus

BIG EAR TWO is a personal, behind-the-scenes account of astronomers, engineers and inventors and of their efforts to probe the cosmos in an attempt to answer the question "Are we alone?". "A book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882484126
• ISBN13: 9781882484126
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Cygnus-Quasar Books
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Radio, RADAR, and the search for E.T. John Kraus has done it

John Kraus, a radio amateur, physicist, inventor of antennas publisher of many books in the field of physics and electronics and builder of radio telescopes shares with us his exciting life and the progress of science and engineering in his book BIG EAR TWO.Exciting chapters in this book will carry you from a young man's early experiences in radio and electronics, though developing electronic countermeasures during World War Two, on to Building BIG EAR, a radio telescope at the Ohio State University. We heartily recommend this book to the engineer, astronomer, physicist, radio amateur, student of the history of science and technology as well as anyone with a general curiosity science. Well written and entertaining, "BIG EAR TWO" is a major revision to the earlier work, "BIG EAR," that was published in 1976.Ed Sharpe, Archivist -for Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation Glendale Arizona

Radio, RADAR, and the search for E.T. John Kraus has done it

John Kraus, a radio amateur, physicist, inventor of antennas publisher of many books in the field of physics and electronics and builder of radio telescopes shares with us his exciting life and the progress of science and engineering in his book BIG EAR TWO.Exciting chapters in this book will carry you from a young man's early experiences in radio and electronics, though developing electronic countermeasures during World War Two, on to Building BIG EAR, a radio telescope at the Ohio State University. We heartily recommend this book to the engineer, astronomer, physicist, radio amateur, student of the history of science and technology as well as anyone with a general curiosity science. Well written and entertaining, "BIG EAR TWO" is a major revision to the earlier work, "BIG EAR," that was published in 1976.Ed Sharpe, Archivist -for Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation Glendale Arizona - couryhouse@aol.com