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WE welcome with pleasure the fifth edition of this work. Few engineering text-books are intelligible to the average student. Many writers, in dealing with even the simplest engine or mechanical contrivance, completely fog the reader's understanding by the undue use of mathematics and abstruse formulæ. The volume before us is the best yet published for use in the engineering classes at our schools and colleges. Prof. Jamieson has treated the subject in a sensible and useful manner; his examples are worked out as simply as possible; and the descriptions throughout the work are those of a practical man who knows his business.
A Text-book on Steam and Steam-Engines.
By Prof. Andrew Jamieson (London: Chas. Griffin and Co., 1889.)
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L., N. [Book Reviews]. Nature 40, 642 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040642a0
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