Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers

Abstract

WE think that the volume under notice justifies its title as being a “standard” handbook. The general make-up and arrangement leave little to be desired. The whole field of electrical engineering is divided into twenty-five sections each complete in itself; these are all numbered and by special depressions on the edges of the pages any particular section is found at once. The index is good, the references being made to section and paragraph. The sections have all been written by well-known American engineers and physicists and have been brought carefully up to date; for example, the section on units is written by Kennelly, magnetic circuits by Karapetoff, illumination by Millar, and electric ship propulsion by Hobart.

Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers.

Prepared by a Staff of Specialists; Editor-in-Chief: Frank F. Fowle. Fifth edition, thoroughly revised. Pp. xviii + 2137. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc., 1922.) 30s.