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MR. TALBOT is to be congratulated on havmg produced a book which must appeal strongly to the interest of the general reader, even though he may have no intention whatever of becoming a “kinematographer.” A word here on this terrible term. It may be correctly derived from the Greek, while it certainly admits of many pronunciations, variously wrong, but the frequent collision with these six syllables when otherwise interested must impress upon the reader of Mr. Talbot's book the desirability of finding some new word of one syllable, not derived anyhow, such, for instance, as the mechanic and the electrician have found in the words crank and boost, so that neither attention may be arrested nor printing ink and paper wasted.
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âœPractical Kinematography and its Applications.â By Frederick A. Talbot . Pp. xii+262+plates. (London: W. Heinemann, 1013.) Price
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BOYS, C. Kinematography and its Applications . Nature 93, 60–62 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093060c0
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