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So rapid has been the progress made in various branches of electrical science that even scientific workers themselves have sometimes to look up many of the latest treatises published before they find the definition of the term or phrase they are looking for. We have looked up many words such as bel, néper, booster, in this dictionary, and have found clear and satisfactory definitions. Purely trade names of apparatus have been omitted. The use of many technical terms in the electrical industry is almost entirely confined to the United States; but some which originated there are equally used on both sides of the Atlantic; the author gives both. Conciseness has been attained without the sacrifice of intelligibility and the author does not trespass on the functionof the encyclopaedia or the technical treatise.
A Dictionary of Electrical Terms: including Telegraphy, Telephony and Wireless.
By S. R. Roget. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. vii + 396. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1931.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Technology. Nature 131, 322 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131322b0
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