Abstract
ONE of the most important features of a scientific society is its capacity to arrange a symposium on a special feature of its activities and to publish the resultant papers. There are many subjects where the interested people are too few for the probable financial return to tempt an author to the publication of a book, and where in addition the knowledge is so specialized that no one author can easily do justice to it. The publication under review* is such, and the Illuminating Engineering Society deserves the thanks of those who, either as user or manufacturer, need to know about searchlights in some detail. The scope of the book is indicated by the sectional headings : "The Function and Design of Army Searchlights", by E. W. Chivers and D. E. H. Jones ; "High-power Searchlights of Wide Divergence", by Air Commodore W. Helmore, H. K. Cameron, F. S. Hawkins, L. B. W. Jolley and L. M. King-Brewster; "Photometry of Searchlights", by H. K. Cameron, E. H. Rayner, E. R. Thomas and G. T. Winch ; "The Visibility of Targets in a Naval Searchlight Beam", by W. D. hesterman and W. S. Stiles; "Some Visibility Problems Associated with Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Beams", by S. S. Beggs and J. M. Waldram ; "Aircraft Searchlights for Anti-Submarine Warfare", by Commander C. J. Carr.
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HAMPTON, W. Symposium on Searchlights. Nature 162, 424 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162424a0
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