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THE precise methods of the physical laboratory have long since been applied in the realm of engineering practice. In workshops, factories, engine-rooms, and steel-works, scientific appajatus is found in ever-increasing quantity. Specifications are drawn up with scientific accuracy and contracts have to be carried out within fine limits. Not only during tests, but also as a matter of daily routine, records of pressure, temperatures, velocities, volumes, and analyses have to bo taken at frequent intervals, and every engineer must be something of a physicist. Of the scientific apparatus in use, there is an endless variety constantly being added to, and the need of an authoritative text-book on the subject is apparent.
Experimental Mechanical Engineering: for Engineers and for Students in Engineering Laboratories.
Prof. Herman Diederichs Prof. William C. Andrae. Vol 1: Engineering Instruments. Pp. viii + 1082. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1930.) 40s. net.
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Experimental Mechanical Engineering: for Engineers and for Students in Engineering Laboratories . Nature 127, 888 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127888a0
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