Abstract
COMMANDER LIND addresses his preface from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and the book doubtless represents the instruction there given on the subject of the internal-combustion engine. For such a purpose the book is very well suited: the theoretical work is sufficiently elementary, and the sections describing practice, although apparently slight, are just such as young cadets can grasp and appreciate, whilst realising how much there is behind to be worked at if they should think of preparing themselves for specialist courses. Such books are sui generis—they make little appeal to trained engineers and are too vague for university courses, but for their own special purposes they are excellent. They enable an officer to have enough general knowledge to give adequate directions to the ratings under him.
Internal-Combustion Engines: Their Principles and Application to Automobile, Aircraft, and Marine Purposes.
By Lieut.-Commr. Wallace L. Lind, U.S.N. Pp. v + 225. (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1920.) Price 10s. net.
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Internal-Combustion Engines: Their Principles and Application to Automobile, Aircraft, and Marine Purposes . Nature 106, 210 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106210c0
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