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THE twenty-fifth edition of the catalogue of physical laboratory apparatus and equipment recently issued by Messrs. W. and J. George, Ltd., proprietors of F. E. Becker and Co., London and Birmingham, is an impressive volume of 824 pages. The contents cover the whole of the equipment needed for the teaching of physics in all types of educational institution from elementary school to university. For convenience of reference, the catalogue is classified into thirteen sections within which the items are arranged in the usual text-book order of treatment of the subject. Physics is divided into ten sections. the remaining three deal with laboratory fittings, equipment and materials, with lantern slides, ciné films and with text-books. Out-of-date items have been entirely replaced by new apparatus, and the designs of many standard instruments have been improved. In addition to the well-known series of Nivoc products made by Messrs. George, other British and foreign items are included so that every normal requirement in physics teaching is to be found within the covers. But it is more than a mere catalogue. Each item dealing with less well-known apparatus has a brief description of the method of use, together with the necessary theory, supplemented in some of the entries by typical numerical results obtained with the apparatus in the laboratory. Some of these descriptions cover a page or two. The specially drawn illustrations are very clear and project well in the epidiascope. Altogether the catalogue, with its detailed index, corner page headings and numerous cross-references, makes a noteworthy addition to the library of any educational or industrial physics laboratory.
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Apparatus for the Physical Laboratory. Nature 144, 190 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144190d0
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