Maxwell's Theory and Wireless Telegraphy Alternating Currents What Do We Know Concerning Electricity? Modern Electricity Modern Electric Practice Electricity Control: A Treatise on Electric Switch-Gear Systems of Electric Transmission

Abstract

THE electrical engineer who wishes to keep pace with the development of his profession and desires to know something more than that which concerns only the particular branch in which he is engaged has a very hard task before him at the present day. He must, in the first instance, endeavour to keep an eye on the technical literature—the innumerable journals and proceedings, the monthly magazines, and the weekly papers—of at least four countries in three different languages. This is in itself a task of no mean difficulty, which is heightened rather than diminished by the various “abstracts” available. So rapid is the multiplication of journals and papers that one is tempted to think that the best advice to give a student would be to read nothing, as if he tries to read much he will waste more time over what is of no value to him than he will spend wisely on the one useful article in a thousand; one is tempted still more to wish that ai rigorous technical censorship might be instituted whicH would allow nothing to find its way into print but that which was of permanent value to the world. In this way the amount of technical literature might be brought within reasonable limits by being reduced to, say, one-tenth of its present volume.

Maxwell's Theory and Wireless Telegraphy.

By H. Poincaré F. K. Vreeland. Pp. xi + 255. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1904.) Price 10s. 6d. net.

Alternating Currents.

Vol. i. By A. Russell. Pp. xii + 407. (Cambridge: The University Press, 1904.) Price 12s. net.

What Do We Know Concerning Electricity?

By Antonia Zimmern. Pp. vii + 140. (London: Methuen and Co., n.d.) Price 1s. 6d. net.

Modern Electricity.

By J. Henry K. J. Hora. Pp. 355. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905.) Price 5s. net.

Modern Electric Practice.

Vol. v. Edited by M. Maclean, Pp. vi + 287. (London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1904.) Price 9s. net.

Electricity Control: A Treatise on Electric Switch-Gear Systems of Electric Transmission.

By Leonard Andrews. Pp. xv + 231. (London: Chas. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1904.)