Wonderful, wonderful machine-age cartoons (see representative samples below). All cartoons in both books are full pagers, each in color.

Of the perhaps ten or twelve copies I've seen of the two books, I've never seen one that wasn't personally inscribed by Eddy.

Here's some biographical information relayed by John Chamberlain (thanks, John!):

"Another local person who reached national fame of sorts at his easel was Capt. William C. Eddy, who supplied cartoon calendar art to Honeywell's Brown Instruments Division (now the Process Control Division) between the years 1938 and 1971.

"In 1938, J.F. Sullivan, a Honeywell, Inc., executive, happened to notice a cartoon Capt. W.C. Eddy was drawing as they rode together on the same train. It was "cartoon love" at first sight and Eddy was signed to a lifetime contract to draw annually such cartoons as the one at left, which appeared in Honeywell's Brown Instruments division calendar in 1967. The cartoons basically reflected man's inability to cope with the machines he builds.

"1940- W9XBK goes on the air on channel two. After the FCC changes the VHF channel/frequency assignments, the station would end up on channel four. Paramount hires Capt. Bill Eddy. Eddy, who worked on Philo Farnsworth's team, was making history at NBC.

"1940- W9XBK goes on the air on channel two.

"Last fortnight Chicago newspapers discovered who and what the Loop sailors were: they were the first primary class in aircraft detecting devices.

"Classrooms for the Navy's primary school are studios of Television Station W9XBK, which smart, rich theater chain men John and Barney Balaban (of Balaban & Katz) offered free to the Navy, a week after Pearl Harbor. After 90 days at W9XBK (which continues to televise for Chicago's 200 receivers), Loop sailors will move on to advanced schools near Washington, at Noroton Heights, Conn., or San Francisco.

"Before Pearl Harbor, the Navy fed its advanced schools with hand-picked graduates of commercial radio schools. Now it grabs up hams at recruiting offices, tests them in mathematics, electricity, shop practice, radio; those who pass get ratings (radioman, second or third class), are shipped to W9XBK. They live at the Naval Armory, half a mile away, work nine hours, six days a week, five hours on Sundays, cram in another two hours of "homework" nightly.

"Masterminding W9XBK's school was one of the strangest geniuses ever to wear the Navy's gold braid: gaunt, towering, post-deaf Lieut, (j.g.) William Crawford Eddy, U.S.N. Retired, who went from NBC's Manhattan television studio to build and operate W9XBK for Balaban & Katz in the fall of 1940.

"Bill Eddy read lips to pass his physical examination at Annapolis, got the highest I.Q. rating ever recorded there. He served ten years as a submarine commander before the Navy discovered in 1934 how deaf he was. To hide his deafness, he had invented a submarine detector that put sound on a dial where he could see it; now it is standard Navy equipment.

"The station received its license in December 1936, and began live broadcasting under the call letters W3XPF in January 1937. It was the third experimental television station in the Philadelphia area (after RCA’s W3XAD and Philco’s W3XE), and the sixteenth station in the U.S. Like its competitors, W3XPF had extremely low wattage and a limited range, and broadcast only a few hours in the evening. At the time, between 100 and 200 Philadelphia-area households had RCA or Philco TV sets, “pre-tuned” to receive only the manufacturer’s station. Since Farnsworth did not manufacture its own sets, only a few homes in and around Wyndmoor could receive W3XPF signals on prototype or homebuilt receivers. Nearly all belonged to Farnsworth employees.
Once W3XPF was on the air, Farnsworth faced the challenge of filling all that empty ether. He put engineer William Eddy in charge of programming. A technical wizard, Eddy pioneered the use of multiple cameras, miniature sets, and lighting specifically designed for television. One of his innovations was to put a TV camera on a barbershop chair so it could move up and down smoothly. Young Donald Pike, a 1933 graduate of Cheltenham High School, who acted as music conductor and arranger for the fledgling station, assisted him. Later, Pike would become an Emmy Award-winning Technical Director for NBC.

"Eddy’s team struggled with dozens of unforeseen technical problems. Because of the infrared sensitivity of early TV cameras, performers needed to apply dark blue makeup around their lips and eyes, giving them a ghoulish appearance off camera. Since red photographed as white, a boxer wearing red shorts for a match seemed to be naked. So did a pretty ballerina whose gauzy costume was rendered invisible by the camera. Robert Rutherford recalls that the ballerina “didn’t care and went ahead and danced. My father was stopped from putting it on the air at the last moment. People were a lot fussier then."