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HYDROELECTRIC power plants do not call for the same attention in this country as in America and on the European continent. Yet what English engineer who has visited such installations has not a store of vivid recollections and happy experiences? The mountains and the forests, the streams and the waterfalls—for the generating stations of hydroelectric plants are usually away out among the beauties of nature—all bring back memories of pleasant tours and the like, whilst so far from destroying the attractiveness of their surroundings by harnessing nature's forces in this way, the author of the present work maintains that the scenery has at times been made more interesting, when proper attention has been paid to the architecture and situation of the buildings. This opinion is well upheld by many of the splendid photographs reproduced so well in this large volume.
Hydroelectric Developments and Engineering. A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Development, Design, Construction, Equipment, and Operation of Hydroelectric Transmission Plants.
By F. Koester. Pp. xxv + 454. (New York: D. van Nostrand Company; London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1909.) Price 21s. net.
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SMITH, S. Hydroelectric Developments and Engineering A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Development, Design, Construction, Equipment, and Operation of Hydroelectric Transmission Plants . Nature 85, 198 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085198a0
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