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THE Institution of Electrical Engineers has just published the third edition (September 1932) of the “Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Ships” (3s. 3d., cloth; and 2s. 2d., paper. E. F. and N. Spon, or the Institution of Electrical Engineers). These regulations enumerate the main requirements and precautions for ensuring safety from fire and shock, in connexion with the generation, storage and distribution of electrical energy for all purposes in sea-going ships of all descriptions with the exception of warships. The book will be essential to manufacturers, navigators, and marine architects, and will be useful to all who travel by sea. It begins by giving definitions indicating the sense in which the various technical expressions given are used throughout. An ‘earth’, for example, is a connexion to the general mass of the hull of a steel ship, and detailed definitions are given of words like watertight, weatherproof, etc., so that the exact meaning of these words when they appear in marine contracts can be found.
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Electricity on Board Ship. Nature 144, 936–937 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144936d0
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