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IT is well known that the author of this work has had special opportunities for studying the subject of transmission of power by all the various methods which have, at different times, been adopted, and the engineering world is to be congratulated on having received from his pen a summary of the principles utilised in this class of work, and of the possibilities of the future, as well as very complete and authentic information about the principal work that has been done in the past. This book is the outcome of a course of “Howard” lectures delivered before the Society of Arts in 1893. It deals with, the generation, storage, and transmission or distribution of power. The methods of transmission and distribution include water under pressure, compressed air, wire ropes, steam, gas and electricity. The author recognises the fact that transmission of power to distances has not been so fully developed in the past as it is likely to be shortly, and that the electrical transmission and distribution of power has more to claim in the way of promises for the future than large achievements in the past.
On the Development and Transmission of Power.
By William Cawthorne Unwin (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894.)
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F., G. On the Development and Transmission of Power. Nature 51, 124 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051124a0
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