Motive Power and Gearing for Electrical Machinery

Abstract

MR. CARTER has written a very interesting and very useful book on a subject of much importance for electrical engineers. The needs of electrical practice have had a great effect in stimulating the invention of quick-running steam engines, the improvement of gas engines, and the discovery of modes of transmitting power from the driving machine to the driven which did not formerly exist. An electrical engineer is all the better electrical engineer for being also a good mechanical engineer; but as he must master (if he is to be anything but the veriest rule-of-thumb mechanic) in the course of his training in the class-room and the workshop, a very considerable body of more purely electrical knowledge and practice, and, over and above, acquire some knowledge and experience in mechanical matters, the latter is the point in which, when starting on his practical career, he is apt to be most deficient.

Motive Power and Gearing for Electrical Machinery.

By E. Tremlett Carter, &c. Pp. xxii + 620. (London: The Electrician Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd.)