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THIS book has been described as the “Compleat Power Engineer”. The author of it has been president of an American technical society, professor of mechanical engineering in an important college, a contributor to more than one important handbook, and the head of a firm. From the immense amount of data he has collected he has been able to compile a most comprehensive work which will prove of value to every power engineer who uses it. The thirteen chapters deal in turn with fuels, boilers, draught, firing appliances, boiler accessories, feed water apparatus, pumps, steam engines, turbines condensing plant, power plant cycles, valves, pipes and fittings, and lastly arrangements of steam power plants.
Steam Power Plant Engineering.
By Louis Allen Harding. Pp. viii + 777. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1932.) 62s. 6d. net.
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Steam Power Plant Engineering. Nature 132, 300 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132300d0
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