Market: Students and researchers in space and high-vacuum technology and
materials science. This handbook was originally prepared so that workers
would not have to consult a great many sources to learn what procedures
and materials were used to construct tubes and other evacuated devices.
Even now, as space and high-vacuum research are yielding new information
daily, much of the subject matter in this seminal work, such as
properties of materials, are as cogent as they were in 1964 when the
book was first published.