Encyclopaedia Britannica

[bandit957]

Another reference book we had was a Rand McNally World Atlas from the late '60s. We buyed it at a yard sale in the early '80s. It's in great condition, and I still have it here.

Apparently, this was a very common book. The cover is red and white.

[kkt]

The Atlas pages for the world still show all the countries of the British Empire in pink - dark pink for self-governing dominions, light pink for colonies.

[kphoger]

We got the CD-ROM set in the late 1990s.  I remember finding the folder with all the .wav files, then mixing and editing them in whatever stock sound editing tool Windows 95 had, then setting those new sound bites as some of our computer's action sounds.  It was kind of fun to hear T. S. Eliot upon startup, with a bunch of backwards tribal African music and who knows what else in the background.  Looking back, I realize my dad probably found it kind of annoying...

[iowahighways]

I dug my copy of Volume 24 out of cold storage and took a couple of pictures.

Those maps were also used in Rand McNally's Goode's World Atlas from that era.

[cjk374]

I don't know how my dad acquired it, but we had Britannica growing up here. It came with a bookcase that fit all 24 volumes. The books were maroon in color.

[amberjns]

I dug my copy of Volume 24 out of cold storage and took a couple of pictures.



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Those maps were also used in Rand McNally's Goode's World Atlas from that era.

I'm very grateful that you shared them here with us.

[bandit957]

The 1981 version had the Micropaedia, Macropaedia, and Propaedia. I think the last volume of the Micropaedia had a big detailed section at the end with data on all the countries of the world.

The Macropaedia had the full-color periodic table and other goodies. I think it had a small map showing the boundaries of all the oceans. The Macropaedia had big articles on each of the 50 states, but very few American cities got a Macropaedia article. Not even Cincinnati had one.

[DandyDan]

I don't specifically remember which encyclopedia it was, but when my family moved to the Chicago suburbs in 1987, one of the stores there was selling the individual books of the set and we made it a goal to get the whole set, which we did. My parents still have it somewhere.

[Big John]

Nerd 1988 ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-jvV0PAlA

[Scott5114]

the Micropaedia had a big

Well, that's just false advertising.

[ErmineNotyours]

We had World Books at school and the library, and for some reason 1955 copies persisted at school and my church.  It was as if this edition blanketed institutions that year and there were still copies hanging around in the 70s, in regular and large-print editions.  One picture in particular I remember in the electricity section was for a large vertical sign for some business called BOWMAC.  In Seattle in the 70s we got TV stations from Vancouver, BC and from Bellingham, which accepts advertising from Vancouver.  One day I saw my sign in an ad, accompanied by a jingle, "At Bowmac on Broadway (Look for the sign...)"  This was apparently a car dealer.  This sign was a lot closer than I thought.  When I finally got a car and could drive to Vancouver I made sure to see the sign in person.  I've followed the fight to preserve it as a landmark, and the location became important again as it represented an extant Toys 'R' Us when all the U. S. stores closed.

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