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The author's justification for his book is that “even among those who use the millimetre in drawing-office or workshop there are probably few who feel confident in calculating with metric units,” and his object is to explain the metric system and to state in full how to convert from the English units to metric units, and vice versa. Incidentally there is given an excellent account of the vernier and other devices used by engineers for accurate measurement. The book should be of great use in industrial life: the conversion tables are very exhaustive.
Metric System for Engineers.
By C. B. Clapham. (Directly-Useful Technical Series.) Pp. xii + 181 + 3 charts. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1921.)12s. 6d. net.
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B., S. Metric System for Engineers . Nature 110, 340 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110340b0
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