Liquid and Gaseous Fuels, and the Part They Play in Modern Power Production

Abstract

WITH the multiplication of institutions where the teaching of applied science is made a leading feature, there has sprung into existence quite a number of text-books which specially appeal to students of this kind. Some of these works are both interesting and useful, but it must be confessed that they one and all seem rather to appeal to the type of mind which is disinclined to attack any really difficult problems. Text-books such as were published twenty years ago, by men such as Rankin and Cotterill, which endeavoured to get at the scientific principles underlying the applications of applied science, seem, with very few exceptions, to have gone out of date and to have become replaced with more interesting and better written books, dealing more or less with the descriptive part of the subject which they treat. Prof. Lewes very modestly states that he does not wish to produce a work that shall, to any extent, enter into detail, and his book is professedly a sketch of the subject. This is to be regretted, as we feel sure that a chemist of such eminence could have produced a work which would have been of great value, not only to the students, but to that large class of engineers who wish to get information on some of the difficult points in connection with both liquid and gaseous fuels.

Liquid and Gaseous Fuels, and the Part They Play in Modern Power Production.

By Prof. V. B. Lewes. Pp. xiv + 334. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1907.) Price 6s. net.