(1) Alternating Currents and Alternating Current Machinery (2) The Elements of Electricity

Abstract

(1) IN its thirteen chapters, this work covers fairly thoroughly the ground suggested by its title; in most places the theoretical side is treated with at least sufficient detail, but the constructional side has also received a good share of attention. We should have liked a somewhat fuller discussion of the motor-converter, and think the time is also ripe for some mention of the Kapp and Scherbius phase advancers and of the Hunt Cascade motor. The first few chapters impressed us very favourably, and although we were someI what disappointed with the later chapters, we consider the book a good one, which will be of service to advanced student.

(1) Alternating Currents and Alternating Current Machinery.

By Prof. D. C. Jackson Dr. J. P. Jackson. New edition, rewritten and enlarged. Pp. ix + 968. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 23s. net.

(2) The Elements of Electricity.

By Prof. Wirt Robinson. Second edition. Pp. xv + 596. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1914.) Price 10s. 6d. net.