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As the sub-title indicates, this book is intended for those “engaged in Installing, Maintaining, or Operating Steam Power Plant,” and to suchitshould prove invaluable. It is of no particular value, except perhaps as a convenient handbook, to the designer or the theorist, and for the purpose for which it is intended this is perhaps its most valuable characteristic. The amount of theory used in the descriptive matter has been kept down to a minimum, consistent with the necessity for the reader to understand the functions and factors which affect condenser performance, and the theoretical explanations given are so lucidly expressed that they are quite easily understood by those unskilled in the technical treatment of engineering problems.
Steam Condensing Plant: a Brief Account of the Construction and Principles involved in the Design of Steam Condensing Plant.
By John Evans. Pp. xii + 202. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1928.) 7s. 6d. net.
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D., L. [Book Reviews]. Nature 122, 536 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122536a0
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