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A Text-book of Mechanical Engineering

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MR. LINEHAM says that the desirability of writing his book was suggested to him by the initiative of the City and Guilds of London Institute in providing an examination in mechanical engineering. In preparing students for this examination he was led, he says, “to consider seriously (1) whether the whole theory and practice of mechanical engineering, or even a précis of it, could be compressed into one volume; and (2) whether it was desirable so to compress it.” After examining Mr. Lineham's book, we must confess to feeling grave doubt whether the second question, at least, should not have been answered in the negative before he set about the execution of so very large a task. The ambition of the attempt is, perhaps, more conspicuous than its success; at the same time the book has good features, and students of engineering may learn from it much that will be valuable to them. It is a novel contribution to engineering literature; by no means wholly satisfactory, but still one that should take a useful place.

A Text-book of Mechanical Engineering.

By Wilfrid J. Lincham, Head of the Engineering Department at the Goldsmiths' Company's Institute, New Cross. (London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1894.)

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A Text-book of Mechanical Engineering. Nature 52, 51–52 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052051a0

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