Experimental Engineering

Abstract

THERE is no doubt that the most striking feature in the increased provision of means for the scientific training of engineers during the last quarter of a century has been the great development of laboratories equipped for experiment and research in all branches of engineering. While as yet there is no general agreement as to the best avenue to the engineering profession, it is universally admitted that such a training as is possible in a well-arranged laboratory can be made a most valuable adjunct to any system of instruction or apprenticeship. This development alone has created a field for a series of text-books such as that of which the book before us is the second volume, while the fact that it is also intended to meet the needs of the large class regularly engaged in what is known as “commercial” testing serves to widen its scope, without in any way diminishing its value for more strictly educational purposes. The book contains a large amount of useful matter, collected with much discrimination from a great variety of sources, and we have little hesitation in saying that it will in very great measure meet the needs to which we have referred.

Experimental Engineering.

Vol. ii. Testing and Strength of Materials of Construction. By W. C. Popplewell. Pp. viii + 404. (Manchester: Scientific Publishing Company, 1901.) Price 10s. 6d. net.