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WE heartily welcome this second edition of Mr. von Schon's admirable treatise on “Hydro-Hlectric Practice.” Although only four years. have elapsed since the first edition appeared, general interest in hydro-electric schemes has. greatly increased, partly, no doubt, due to the way in which the public imagination has been fired by the possibilities of electrochemical and electrometallurgical processes, particularly as applied to the manufacture of iron and steel, and to the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. It is on. this, if on no other, account to be regretted that the book deals solely with conditions as they exist in America, and that no illustrations are drawn from the vast water-power schemes now in course of construction or operation in Norway, for example.
Hydro-Electric Practice.
A Practical Manual of the Development of Water Power, its Conversion to Electric Energy, and its Distant Transmission. By H. A. E. C. von Schon. Second edition. Pp. xvii + 383. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1911.) Price 25s. net.
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Hydro-Electric Practice . Nature 89, 214–215 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089214a0
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