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Now that electricity supply is available to many, a demand has arisen for accurate knowledge about the various uses to which this supply can be applied for domestic and factory purposes. This book will be useful in this connexion. It contains a useful diary, a calendar, and a section dealing with general principles which can be readily understood by anyone with a little technical knowledge. There is a section dealing with electric lighting, heating, cooking, and power in the home, due stress being laid on the economic and aesthetic factors. The costs of electricity in public and private buildings and in factories are discussed, and simple methods of computing them are given.
Electricity for Everybody: Handbook for 1931; an Electrical Compendium incorporating a Gazetteer of Electricity Supplies, a Directory of Electrical Contractors, and a Diary from April 1931 to March 1932.
By R. Borlase Matthews. Pp. lxxxvii + 470. (London: Electrical Press, Ltd., 1931.) 5s. net
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Physics. Nature 128, 960 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128960a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128960a0