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M. HOSPITALIER'S “Formulaire Pratique de 1'Électricien,” of which the work before us is a translation, has become well known in this country as a useful compendium of data and rules for electrical work, and Mr. Wigan has done good service in putting an English version within the reach of the numerous class of practical men whose knowledge of French is, to say the least, limited. He has executed his task very creditably, as the book, so far as we can tell without a minute examination of the numerical and other data, seems fairly accurate and trustworthy. The least satisfactory part of this work, as of all others of the same kind which we have seen, is, we think, the synopsis of theory which is given along with the data and other practical information. In these days of excellent elementary and advanced text-books of theoretical and to some extent also of applied electricity, the necessarily detached and somewhat scrappy statements of theory which partly fill the “pocket-books,” are little called for, and the space occupied by them could be used to better advantage for other matter, or the book lightened by their omission.
The Electrician's Pocket-Book.
The English Edition of Hospitalier's "Formulaire Pratique de l'Électricien." Translated, with additions, by Gordon Wigan, Barrister-at-Law. (London, Paris, and New York: Cassell and Co., Limited, 1884.)
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GRAY, A. The Electrician's Pocket-Book . Nature 31, 51 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031051b0
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