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MR. HAYWARD is very happy in the treatment of his subject in his “First Stage Steam,” written to meet the requirements of the examination of the Board of Education at South Kensington. After a short introductory chapter on mensuration and squared paper work, drawings of a simple horizontal steam engine are given, and the functions of the various parts are described in detail. This description occupies considerable space, and at appropriate intervals is made the occasion for the introduction of experiments and calculations bearing on the subject. The Lancashire boiler with its mountings is then well described, and this leads naturally to the consideration of combustion and the heat properties of steam. The reader is introduced to these by simple and striking experiments which he can make himself, and not until after this has been done is the student informed of the results of classical experiments on which heat calculations of the steam engine are based. The writer then, by the help of good illustrations, touches on the salient points connected with the design and working of modern locomotives, marine engines, internal combustion engines, and steam turbines. The reader is left with the impression that there is very much in the subject worthy of attentive study. A special feature of the book is the encouragement given to quantitative experimental work with simple apparatus which the student can make and use himself. The book is not free from slight defects, but is sure to give satisfaction wherever used.
First Stage Steam.
By J. W. Hayward Pp. 230. (London: W. B. Clive, University Tutorial Press, Ltd., 1904.) Price 2s.
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First Stage Steam . Nature 70, 453 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070453c0
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