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THIS book professes to be “a practical handbook for the use of mine-managers and engineers” to assist them in the “selection, arrangement and installation” of gold-mining machinery. Such a work properly executed would. doubtless perform a useful function out Mr. Tinney's production fails in its purpose for it is out of date and superficial. For example, winding machinery, which should surely be one of the most important sections of a work such as this purports to be, is dealt with in seven pages of letterpress, and, as may well be imagined, the modern high-class winding engine finds no place in it. Deep winding, the greatest problem at present engaging the attention of the mechanical engineers of the Witwatersrand goldfields, is passed over in silence. Again, the electrical transmission of power, a subject of vast and ever-growing importance to the miner, is dismissed in four pages of letterpress.
Gold Mining Machinery: its Selection, Arrangement, and Installation.
By W. H. Tinney. Pp. xii + 308. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1906.)
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Gold Mining Machinery: its Selection, Arrangement, and Installation . Nature 76, 7 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076007b0
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