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THESE volumes have been published with the intention of providing a comprehensive treatise on the subject of modern electrical engineering, a subject now so large and so diversified that it is beyond the power of one man, however expert, to deal with it in all its aspects. The plan has therefore been adopted of inviting the collaboration of a number of authors, each writing of that section with which he is particularly conversant, and thus producing a sort of encyclopædia of electrical engineering which might be compared with such books as Watts's “Dictionary of Chemistry.” It is difficult to form an estimate of the value of a book of this kind, which depends as much upon the skill and discretion which are shown in the selection and arrangement of the material as upon the merits possessed by the individual contributions.
Modern Electric Practice.
Edited by Magnus Maclean. In six volumes. Vol. i., pp. viii + 270. Vol. ii., pp. vi + 297. Vol. iii., pp. vi + 285. (London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1904.) Price 9s. net per volume.
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SOLOMON, M. Modern Electric Practice . Nature 70, 339–340 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070339a0
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