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THE late Sir George Greenhill, referring to Rankine's paper on the screw propeller, described it as a classic, adding, “which means something that is seldom read”. This cynicism could scarcely apply to the work before us, now in its ninth edition totalling 52,000 copies. But if we accept the Oxford Dictionary as an authority we find Dr. Morley's book admirably qualified as “simple, harmonious, proportioned, and finished”.
Strength of Materials
By Dr. Arthur Morley. Ninth edition. Pp. x + 571. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1940.) 15s. net.
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R., H. Strength of Materials. Nature 146, 386 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146386c0
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