Collections of transistor circuits

[anotherjim]

Take the E-line...
http://www.introni.it/pdf/Ferranti%20-%20E%20Line%20Transistor%20Applications%201974.pdf

[pacealot]

"...toooo, go to Bias Hill way up in Amptown..." 

[Rob Strand]

Take the E-line...
http://www.introni.it/pdf/Ferranti%20-%20E%20Line%20Transistor%20Applications%201974.pdf

That's a good collection.    They also give some explanations.

These days the speed-up cap for BJTs is a long lost technique Fig 1.2.    The normal circuit is Fig 1.2a with a loooong turn-off delay.   Fig 1.2d is with the correct speed-up cap - a vast improvement.

Section 2 has a heap of lost circuits as well.  It's nice they attribute the inventors - back in the day smart people came up with these circuits.  There exists alternate Monostable and Schmitt-trigger circuits but they aren't easy to come by.