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IN these eighty-seven pages Mr. Pullen brings together tables and data which will be found very serviceable in engineering laboratory work and in the solution of class problems and exercises in mechanical engineering. Points perhaps of special mention are that the general steam table is carried up to 300 lbs. per square inch; the diagram for determining the dryness of steam with the throttling calorimeter is plotted on a large scale, and the melting points of various substances has been revised by Sir William Roberts-Austen. For facility of reference the British and metric measures are placed side by side. The remaining portion of the book is devoted to mathematical notes on mensuration, geometry, trigonometry &c., with a synopsis of mathematical data. At the end are added a few extra pages, some of which are blank, while on others are printed diagrams of millimetre paper, for the insertion of any additional curves the student may wish to insert. Not only engineering students, but others should find the contents of this book a useful laboratory vade-mecum.
Tables and Data.
By W. W. F. Pullen. (Manchester: Scientific Publishing Company, 1899.)
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Tables and Data. Nature 60, 567 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060567b0
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