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IN his Royal Society paper in 1900 and in his article on Vaporisation in the “ Encyclopædia Britannica “ of 1902, Prof. Callendar showed the use of a simple empirical formula connecting the pressure, density, and temperature of steam. If his formula is correct, it is possible to tabulate all the properties of steam required in engineering calculations in such ways that the numbers are more consistent with one another than any hitherto published. Mollier, of Dresden, published tables and corresponding curves calculated by this method, and these were republished in England by Ewing in 1910. Messrs. Smith and Warren calculated and published tables which were discussed in NATURE of April 3, 1913. We then gave reasons for the suggestion that perhaps such experimental results as were available scarcely justified the use of the Callendar method, in spite of the fact that Prof. Callendar is undoubtedly the highest authority on this subject. He now says that these tables form part of a larger work entitled “Properties of Steam”, in which the theory of steam and experimental methods of investigation are more fully discussed and illustrated.
The Callendar Steam Tables.
By Prof. H. L. Callendar. Pp. 39. (London: Edward Arnold, 1915.) Price 3s. net.
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P., J. The Callendar Steam Tables . Nature 96, 256 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096256a0
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