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WE should have been glad if it had been possible to speak more favourably of Dr. Maier's work than can be done after a conscientious reading of it; for Dr. Maier has made himself so thoroughly master of our language, and has taken such obvious pains to acquaint himself with the literature of electric lighting, that we cannot help wondering how so able a man has produced such a disappointing treatise. Much of the work appears to have been translated from Merling's and other German books on electric lighting. Perhaps it is to this composite origin that the defects are due which a reviewer is bound to point out.
Arc and Glow Lamps.
A Practical Hand-Book on Electric Lighting. By Julius Maier. (London: Whittaker and Co., and G. Bell and Sons, 1886.)
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T., S. Arc and Glow Lamps . Nature 34, 542–543 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034542a0
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