[Book Reviews]

Abstract

To the British manufacturer of centrifugal pumps, as well as to the student who is specialising in the subject, the appearance of the translation of a volume written by a leading technical official of a well-known Continental firm can scarcely fail to be of interest, if only for the opportunity it should afford of comparing British and foreign practice in various points of detail and design. The author is chief engineer of the Ateliers de Constructions Électriques de Charleroi, more commonly known as the A.C.E.C., and he is also professor of hydraulics at the University of Charleroi: two outstanding qualifications which should admirably equip him for the preparation of a manual of sound practical value.

A Practical Treatise on Single and Multi-Stage Centrifugal Pumps.

By Raymond Defeld. Translated by C. W. Olliver. Pp. x + 221 + 42 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1930.) 21s. net.