Abstract
LIKE most progressive industries, the town's gas industry, as a result of the developments of chemistry and engineering, exhibits rapid changes in its processes which can only be followed in the periodical literature. Moreover, the industry is already well advanced into its second century, and possesses an accumulated fund of almost traditional experience. There is clearly a place for a book which will at intervals bring into focus the old and the new technology. During the last twenty years, this had been done by “Alwyne Meade”, and the appearance of the first volume of the third edition is a reminder that it has met the need. This volume deals only with the construction and operation of carbonising plant. Those interested in gas manufacture will remember that “Alwyne Meade” deals essentially with matters of fact, and is not an analysis of scientific principles. It is a work for the practical man and possibly the student of technology. So well is it known, that it is scarcely necessary to do more than indicate its reappearance, bigger and more comprehensive than before.
The New Modern Gasworks Practice.
Alwyne
Meade
Being the third edition, entirely rewritten and greatly enlarged, of “Modern Gasworks Practice". By. Vol. 1: Design and Construction of Gasworks, Carbonisation Plant, Mechanical Handling of Materials. Pp. xiii + 534. (London: Eyre and Spottis-woode, Ltd., 1934.) 50s. net.
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H., H. The New Modern Gasworks Practice . Nature 134, 400 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134400a0
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