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PROF. HUDSON'S book contains what may be regarded as the ‘permanent information’ of engineering. It comprises a consolidation of the principal formulae and tables of mathematics, mechanics, hydraulics, heat and electricity in frequent use by practising engineers and engineering students. As each set of formulae is preceded by a statement giving its application, the physical quantities involved and the units of measurement used, the appropriate formula is quickly selected and accurate substitution readily effected. The sequence in which the formulae are arranged is, so far as possible, that of the order of derivation, so that, where it may be required, the source of any statement can be recognized from an inspection of those immediately preceding it.
The Engineers' Manual
By Prof. Ralph G. Hudson. Second edition. Pp. iv + 340. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1939.) 13s. 6d. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 1006 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451006b0
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