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MANY technical high schools in America have elementary electrical engineering courses. This book has been written for the use of students attending these courses and the author has done his work well. The explanations are clear, and the machines described are all in everyday use. The first five chapters give a good grounding in the elementary principles of magnetic and electric circuits, a large number of illustrative problems being given to show concrete applications of these problems. The rest of the book gives a bird's-eye view of electrical engineering. Owing to the great industrial importance of batteries, as, for example, in radio work and for motor-cars, we are glad that due space has been allotted to describing their underlying principles and how to maintain their efficiency and life. A typical ignition system and a typical lighting and starting system for motor-cars are also fully described. The next volume will discuss direct and alternating current power distribution. The author perhaps states a fundamental law of electrostatics too dogmatically: “For every positive charge in the universe there must exist an equal negative charge.” It is a bold thing to draw conclusions about the universe from our terrestrial experiments.
Industrial Electricity.
Prof.
Chester L.
Dawes
By. (Electrical Engineering Texts.) Part I. Pp. xiv+371. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1924.) 11s. 3d. net.
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Industrial Electricity . Nature 116, 240 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116240a0
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