Abstract
THIS comprehensive and authoritative work contains a wealth of matter relating to practical hydraulics which one might seek in vain for in any other published book on the subject. In the preface the author tells us that the book is the product of actual engineering experience, and is mainly based on a collection of notes and formulas accumulated in some eighteen years of professional work, during the major portion of which he was engaged in independent practice, and that therefore it must be regarded not as a text-book, but rather as a manual for engineers in active work. He also remarks that, “although the initial knowledge assumed in the reader may be considered to be somewhat unusual, many portions of the book have stood the test of everyday office requirements in the hands of draughtsmen and assistants.” And it is only fair to say that an examination of the work is entirely favourable to the author on these points, although, of course, in a work covering such a wide field, here and there are matters of a controversial character, which might be dealt with if the exigencies of space permitted.
The Control of Water as Applied to Irrigation, Power and Town Water Supply Purposes.
By P. A. M. Parker. Pp. vii + 1055. (London: G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1913.) Price 21s. net.
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S., H. The Control of Water as Applied to Irrigation, Power and Town Water Supply Purposes . Nature 91, 655 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091655a0
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