Abstract
IT is one of the disadvantages of war that scientific and technical people are often dispersed far and wide, are unable to meet each other at scientific meetings, and have not, through the technical censorship, access to the latest information respecting new materials and processes. It frequently happens that individuals are simply not aware of the newest developments in science and technology, and this may have an adverse effect on their own work, or delay its successful prosecution. This enforced isolation is mitigated to a large extent by the present text. The author, within the limits tolerated by security, conducts his reader through many technical developments spread over a wide field. Many of these were introduced before the War, but the exigencies of the latter have forced them beyond the experimental stage, until they can no longer be deemed experimental or even-developments, but must be included as regular practice in up-to-date manufacture.
Modern Engineering
By C. H. S. Tupholme. Pp. xi + 201 + 23 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1942.) 15s. net.
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HUGHES, L. Modern Engineering. Nature 151, 208 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151208a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151208a0