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A VERY useful account is given in this book, from an engineering point of view, of the application of thermodynamics to the theory of the steam engine, mechanical refrigeration, steam nozzles, steam turbines, fuels and the internal combustion engine. Students reading for the final examination for an engineering degree should find the accounts of these applications helpful. The author states that the “subject has been methodically developed from the fundamental laws of experimental physics”. His attitude towards some of these fundamentals may be gauged from the quotations following, which the reviewer gives without comment:
Thermodynamics Applied to Heat Engines: a Textbook covering the Syllabuses of the B.Sc. (Eng.) and A.M.I. Mech.E. Examinations in this Subject.
By E. H. Lewitt. (Engineering Degree Series.) Pp. x + 347. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1933.) 12s. 6d. net.
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F., A. Thermodynamics Applied to Heat Engines: a Textbook covering the Syllabuses of the BSc (Eng) and AMI MechE Examinations in this Subject . Nature 133, 196 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133196a0
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