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THIS book by Dr. Fleming is a delightful record of the research, discovery, and development which has lain behind the infusion of electricity into the life of civilised lands over the last fifty years. It is written with the intimate knowledge and enthusiasm of one who has himself been a worker and a keen contemporary observer throughout the period, and whose name will always be associated with some of its pioneer achievements. But perhaps of even more importance, Dr. Fleming has been unrivalled in the way in which he has interpreted the results of research to electrical engineers, applying always the latest discovery to the practical everyday technical problems, and expressing results in engineering units and magnitudes. He always sees the romance in every new theory or discovery, and seeks to make others see it too.
The Interaction of Pure Scientific Research and Electrical Engineering Practice: a Course of Advanced Lectures delivered before the University of London, October and November 1926.
By Dr. J. A. Fleming Pp. x + 235. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 15s. net.
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The Interaction of Pure Scientific Research and Electrical Engineering Practice: a Course of Advanced Lectures delivered before the University of London, October and November 1926. Nature 121, 130–131 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121130a0
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