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THIS book is really a handbook for students who make those quantitative experiments in a mechanical laboratory which are now part of the Applied Mechanics Course of the Science and Art Department. The laboratory system of teaching this subject has passed through all its trials, and has taken its rightful place, not merely in evening science schools, but in the engineering classes of the most pretentious technical institutions in every part of the world. It seems to us that this little book will prove to be a useful guide to teachers. A good teacher will arrange his own methods; he will probably design much of his own apparatus, and he will write out with his own hands the instructions to students using the apparatus, giving up this most important part of his work to no lieutenant, however clever and ingenious. He will, in fact, arrange his apparatus to suit his students and the character of the rest of his teaching. Even he, however, must welcome a description of the apparatus and its uses which have suggested themselves to such an experienced teacher as Mr. Wells.
Practical Mechanics: an Elementary Manual for the Use of Students in Science and Technical Schools and Classes.
By Sidney H. Wells Pp. xii + 220. (London: Methuen and Co., 1898.)
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P., J. Practical Mechanics: an Elementary Manual for the Use of Students in Science and Technical Schools and Classes. Nature 59, 100 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059100a0
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