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IN years to come the publication of this monumental work will rank as one of the milestones in British applied science. If argument were needed, none more convincing could be adduced in illustration of the necessity for a working co-operation between the physicist and the engineer. Sir Alfred Ewing recently defined engineering as “the turning to man's use and convenience of the things which it is the business of physics to understand.” This Dictionary helps one to realise, as perhaps never previously, that in all branches of engineering the engineer, whether revealing or directing, whether inventing or designing, whether testing or measuring, whether systematising, co-ordinating, or clarifying, is continually turning physical principles to account.
A Dictionary of Applied Physics.
Edited by Sir Richard Glazebrook. (In 5 volumes.) Vol. 1: Mechanics, Engineering, Heat. Pp. ix + 1067. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1922.) 3l. 3s. net.
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KAYE, G. A Dictionary of Applied Physics . Nature 110, 439–442 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110439a0
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