Electronics World

The circulation is split between electronic design engineers, senior managers, and R&D professionals within areas such as communications, manufacturing, education and training, IT, medical, power, oil and gas.

With the outbreak of World War II and the expected shortages of paper and other resources, the publication reverted to being monthly, a frequency that it still retains to this day.

A sister publication was Wireless Engineer which was more of a learned journal than a popular magazine, featuring high quality, technical articles.

In Wireless World 's October 1945 issue, Arthur C. Clarke (then of The British Interplanetary Society) published a now-famous article, "Extra Terrestrial Relays", which foresaw the coming of communications satellites in synchronous orbit around the Earth.

In 1952 it made the first public announcement of the Baxandall tone control circuit, a design now employed in millions of hi-fi systems including amplifiers and effects for musical instruments.

It was constructed entirely from "reject" transistors (functional, but not meeting all specifications, consequently sold cheaply), and was intended for teaching the basic principles of computer operation.

Scroggie, who contributed articles of an educational nature on subjects such as applied mathematics and electronic theory using the pen name "Cathode Ray".

"Free Grid" was the pseudonym of Norman Preston Vincer-Minter (1897–1964), a classicist and ex-naval wireless operator who specialised in deflating pomposity with his biting wit.

Cocking (designer of the WW television sets); the last six editors were Tom Ivall, Philip Darrington, Frank Ogden, Martin Eccles, Phil Reed and Svetlana "Stella" Josifovska, who edited the publication for 20 years from 2004 to August 2024.

An occasional contributor, Ivor Catt, sparked controversy with an article on electromagnetism in December 1978 by challenging the validity of Maxwell's displacement current.