Vintage Machine Design and the Electronic Story booklet from the 1970s, published by Machine Design magazine. This yellow softcover trade reprint highlights the early age of electronics and microprocessors in industrial design — showing how semiconductors, digital controls, and automation began transforming products and manufacturing.

Inside are cover pages and partial articles reprinted from Machine Design issues, including:

“Okay, Let’s Go Electronic!” by Milton Leonard

“Transient Suppression — Don’t Make the Cure Worse Than the Disease”

“Test Equipment for Microcomputers” by Sterling Hou (Intel Corp.)

Features on digital watches, laser applications, radar systems, and early video communication advances

An excellent snapshot of 1970s tech innovation — ideal for engineers, collectors, historians, or display.

Details:

Publisher: Machine Design (Penton Publishing, Cleveland, Ohio)

Format: Softcover stapled booklet, approx. 8.5" x 11"

Pages: 80–100 (unpaginated)

Language: English

Condition: Very good — clean pages, light age toning, bright yellow cover

No publication date listed (estimated mid-1970s)

Original promotional compilation, not a modern reprint

Ships fast and well protected in a poly sleeve and rigid mailer.

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