elaborate instruments that form part of marine testing tank equipments, and the whirling tables used for aeronautical research."-From a review in Electrical Engineering, London, April 8, 1915, p. 153. Also reviewed in: Mechanical Engineer, Manchester, April 9, 1915, p. 276; in Electrician, London, June 18, 1915, p. 395; in Mechanical World, London, Aug. 6, 1915, p. 65; in Electrical World, New York, Aug. 14, 1915, p. 352. Jones, Franklin Day, 1879-. Modern toolmaking methods; a treatise on precision dividing and locating methods, lapping, making forming tools, accurate threading, bench lathe practice, tools for precision measurements, and general toolmaking practice; compiled and edited by Franklin D. Jones... New York: Industrial Press, 1915. 309 p. illus. 1. ed. 8°. Lucke, Charles Edward, and J. J. FLATHER. A text book of engineering thermodynamics. An abridgement of Engineering thermodynamics by Charles Edward Lucke... New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1915. 688 p. 8°. "Throughout the entire work there have been established a series of working formulas derived from a few simple principles having in view maximum clearness and utlity, and the resulting equations have been presented in such form as to be readily available for numerical substitution, either directly or by the use of derived charts. This permits the solution of quite involved thermodynamic problems with very little labor or time, although it has necessarily required the expansion of the subject over a considerable number of pages, but it is confidentially believed that the saving of time thus gained in facilitating numerical solutions more than justifies the presentation."-From the preface. Martin, W. D. Marine oil engines; principles and management of various types, including verbal questions and answers, fully illustrated with diagrams. Glasgow: J. Munro & Co., Ltd., 1915. 129 p. 12°. "Engineers who are preparing for their examinations and unfamiliar with the marine oil engine will find the book very useful. The author has explained himself very clearly throughout the text so as to make the work as helpful as possible."-From a review in The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect, April, 1915. Myers, David Moffat. Preventing losses in factory power plants. (Works management library.) 560 P. "Deals with this important subject in a clear and illuminating manner and should be of great benefit to all engaged either in the owning, operating, designing or rehabilitating of power plants, great or small. The theory and practice are ably explained. Every item of loss, with its consequent result, is traced in successive steps from its origin back to the coal pile. Methods of prevention, together with actual examples from the author's wide experience, are carefully shown."-From a review in Power, New York, April 27, 1915. p. 56. Also reviewed in Iron Age, New York, April 15, 1915, p. 851; in Electrical World, New York, May 8, 1915, p. 1178; and in Electric Journal, Pittsburgh, Aug., 1915, p. 22. Nickel, Frank F. Direct-acting steam pumps. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1915. 258 p. illus. 8°. "This book had its basis in a course of lectures delivered by the author before the students of Columbia University. It is not a treatise on pumping machinery in general, but, as the title implies, is confined exclusively to the direct-acting steam pump. Doctor Nickel's experience, extending over thirty years in this line, not only fits him to speak authoritatively on the subject, but has enabled him to weave into the text much first-hand information concerning the development of this type of pump."-From a review in Power, May 18, 1915. Also reviewed in Canadian Engineer, Toronto, May 27, 1915, p. 608; in Engineering Record, New York, May 22, 1915, p. 658; in Practical Engineer, Chicago, July 1, 1915, p. 660. 156 p. *Peebles, James C. Furnace efficiency; combustion and flue gases. illus. Designed to instruct power plant engineers, managers, and firemen in modern methods or securing efficiency and economy in coal consumption under the steam boiler. Discusses in untechnical language the chemistry of combustion, flue gas analysis, draft losses, smoke prevention, gauges and meters, mechanical stokers, stacks and chimneys. Has questions and answers. Reviewed in Electrical Review and Western Electrician, Chicago, April 10, 1915, p. 698. Smith, Robert Henry. Text-book of advanced machine work, prepared for students in technical, manual training, and trade schools, and for the apprentice in the shop. Boston: Industrial Education Book Co. [1915.] v. p. illus. 3. ed. 8°. A logically arranged textbook intended to follow Principles of machine design by the same author, who has had charge of the machine shops of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for many years. Operations are clearly and minutely described and the illustrations are remarkably well done. Reviewed in Machinery, New York, July, 1915, p. 94. Swingle, Calvin Franklin. Oxy-acetylene welding and cutting, including the operation and care of acetylene generating plants and the oxygen process for removal of carbon. F. T. Drake & Co. [1915.] 190 p. A practical little book in plain language. illus. 16°. Chicago: Reviewed in Engineering News, New York, July 15, 1915, p. 119-20; in Canadian Engineer, Toronto, April 29, 1915, p. 515; in Power, New York, April 27, 1915, p. 592; in National Engineer, Chicago, June, 1915, p. 328. Mining and Metallurgy Backert, Adolphus Otto, editor. The A B C of iron and steel, with a directory of the iron and steel works and their products of the United States and Canada. Cleveland, O.: Penton Pub. Co., 1915. 338 p. illus. 4°. Eighteen attractively illustrated articles by fifteen different experts, giving the leading facts of the iron and steel industry in America "from the mining of the ore to the manufacture of such finished products as wire and castings." "Provides a means whereby the large number of people engaged in mechanical work, who are anxious to become familiar with the methods and processes of one of the country's most important industries, may do so through the medium of a book specifically written for the purpose, and covering the subject in broad, general outline... The work is, therefore, in a sense, elementary in nature, but covers fully not only the practical but the commercial phases of the industry." - From a review in Machinery, New York, May, 1915, p. 774. Also reviewed in Iron Age, New York, April 8, 1915, p. 822; Iron & Coal Trades Review, London, April 23, 1915, p. 576; Engineering Record, New York, June 26, 1915, p. 813; Iron Trade Review, Cleveland, March 25, 1915, p. 603. *Borchers, Wilhelm, 1856-. Kupfer; bearbeitet von Wilhelm Borchers... Unter Mitwirkung von Rudolf Franke... Halle (Saale): W. Knapp, 1915. 450 p. illus. 4°. (Metallhüttenbetriebe. Bd. 1.) A comprehensive and exceptionally well illustrated treatise of 450 pages covering chiefly the best modern American practice of roasting, smelting, concentration, leaching, refining, and electrolysis. The colored plates and historical data are noteworthy. The author is professor of metallurgy in the Royal Technical High school of Aachen, Germany. Clennell, John Edward. The cyanide handbook. York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1915. New 601 p. illus. 2. ed. 8°. Contains 81 pages more than the previous edition and is brought strictly up to date with sections and illustrations dealing with crushing and grinding, hydraulic classification, filter presses, vacuum filtration, agitating and aërating devices, zinc and aluminum dust precipitation, and the treatment of refractory ores. "This new handbook for the use of managers of cyanide plants, chemists, foremen and assayers is devoted to the fundamental principles of cyanide practice, and is therefore likely to have a greater permanent value than treatises given up largely to descriptions of mechanical details and arrangements of individual plants... The handbook does not add greatly to the theoretical discussion of the cyanide process, but it places in the hands of those engaged in the conduct of actual operations information to meet the daily needs of the plant, and also data for the study of obscure problems along lines where the greatest improvements are yet to be made."-From a review of the first edition in the Engineering and Mining Journal, New York, August 6, 1910, p. 277. p. 392. Second edition is reviewed in Mining Press, San Francisco, March 6, 1915, Coppock, John B., and G. A. LODGE. An introduction to mining science. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915. 12°. (Longmans' technical handicraft series.) 230 p. "This little handbook is intended to instill into the minds of workers in mines the necessity for regarding all problems of underground safety in an intelligent way. It is cleverly and interestingly written, so that though intended primarily for the beginner and even the dullard, it contains so many novel presentations of well known facts that it may convey many a useful hint to the most seasoned individual. A specialty is made of the multifarious ways in which an underground fire can be started, and all through the book instances are given of methods for detecting and preventing such outbreaks... Both in substance and method of presentation the book is excellent." - From a review in Mining Magazine, London, July, 1915, p. 53. Also reviewed in Iron & Coal Trades Review, London, July 9, 1915, p. 46. Hager, Dorsey. Practical oil geology; the application of geology to oil field problems. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1915. illus. 1. ed. 12°. 149 p. "This is an excellent little book on the application of geology to oilfield problems, somewhat similar in scope to E. H. Cunningham Craig's Oil Finding.' but written from the American point of view. The author has had extended experience in the California fields especially, and is engaged in active practice as a consulting geologist in Western North America. The book is concise, but clear, and illustrated with numerous sketches. It includes working diagrams and tables, and such general matter as is appropriate to the main purpose. The various chapters cover the origin and properties of petroleum, stratigraphy and structure as relates to oil, methods of prospecting and mapping, locating drill holes, relations of geology to drilling, applications of geology to development of properties, a study of water problems, and some special cautions. There are not many books on petroleum and this little volume will fill a gap in many a working library." — From a review in the Mining Magazine, London, July, 1915, p. 53. Also reviewed in Mining Journal, London, June 26, 1915, p. 470. Nicolls, William Jasper. Coal catechism. J. B. Lippincott Co., 1914. 249 p. 16°. Philadelphia: A useful set of questions and answers by the author of "The story of American coals." Covers origin, geography, production, classification, prospecting, development, transportation, preparation, coking, power, and uses. "Perhaps some people do not object to the catechism as a way of imparting information. This is a matter of taste, and a book is valuable or not according to the material it contains and the judgment used in its selection regardless of the manner of presentment chosen. We think the book stands the test well, seeing that it is intended for 'that great number of intelligent readers who have no technical training. It is in nearly every case accurate as it can be made without entering exhaustively into details." - From a review in Coal Age, New York, April 24, 1915, p. 737-738. *Park, James. A text-book of practical assaying; for the use of mining schools, miners, and metallurgists. Revised and enlarged from third New Zealand edition. London: C. Griffin & Co., Ltd., 1914. series.) 342 p. illus. 12°. (Griffin's mining A compact, well arranged little treatise dealing with the common metals, chlorine, sulphur, rare earths, arsenic, phosphorus, cyanides, Portland cement, rocks, coals, soils, manures, oil shale, water, alcohol, and milk. "Any person with a small knowledge of certain reagents and materials could learn assaying from this book without trouble, owing to its practical style."- From a review in Mining & Scientific Press, San Francisco, April 10, 1915, p. 607. Also reviewed in Mining Magazine, London, April, 1915, p. 237. *Rodenhauser, Wilhelm. Ferromangan als Desoxydationsmittel im festen und flüssigen Zustand und das Ferromanganschmelzen. Leipzig: O. Leiner, 1915. 127 p. illus. 8°. "Engineer Rodenhauser is well known to steel metallurgists for his work on the Roechling-Rodenhauser induction furnace. This timely book...is concerned principally with the latest improvement in manufacturing steel - the addition of molten ferromanganese. It describes the properties and function of ferromanganese, the various means for melting it, and the advantages resulting from adding it melted to the steel. The melting is described in detail as carried on in Rombach, Keller, Girod, Heroult, Nathusius and Roechling-Rodenhauser furnaces. We are sorry to see the Rennerfelt furnace omitted, for a good description of its usefulness for this very purpose was published by the Iron and Steel Institute last year. Notwithstanding this omission, it is a book which every steel maker ought to read." From a review in Metallurgical & Chemical Engineering, New York, July, 1915, p. 18. Also reviewed in Stahl und Eisen, Düsseldorf, June 3, 1915, p. 598–600. Thomson, Francis Andrew. Stamp milling and cyaniding. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1915. illus. 8°. 285 p. table. "This is an excellent little work on a subject which has been covered many times by other authors. One would think that unless something new had been developed there would be hardly any scope for another book. The concise manner in which it has been arranged gives the volume its chance. Strictly speaking it is a compilation. The author, who is at the State College at Pullman, Washington, admits this. He has drawn freely from the leading journals in the United States, and one in England, which devote most of their space to ore treatment. Manufacturers of machinery for this purpose helped illustrate the book by supplying photographs of their products." From a review in Mining and Scientific Press, May 15, 1915. Also reviewed in Engineering News, New York, June 17, 1915, p. 1177; in Mining Magazine, London, June, 1915, p. 361. *White, Charles Henry. Methods in metallurgical analysis. New York: D. Van Nostrand and Co., 1915. 12°. 356 p. illus. General in scope and represents American practice. Supplemented by a list of helpful references. Also treats of recent practice in such subjects as copper in steel, cyanogen in commercial cyanide, gas analysis, testing of uranium ore, and examination of boiler water. Painting, Gilding, etc. Scott-Mitchell, Frederick. Practical gilding, bronzing... London: The Trades Papers Publishing Co., 1915. 178 p. illus. no. 11.) 12°. ("The decorator" series of practical handbooks. Practically the second edition of work published in 1905. Revised with new material on glass embossing, gesso and relief decoration, and mosaic work, with a scale of charges. Reviewed in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, London, July 23, 1915, p. 803. *Wenzel, Franz Jos. Handbuch für Maler; praktisches Nachschläge- und Auskunftspuch über das gesamte technische Wissen des Dekorationsmalers, Anstreichers, Lackierers, Vergolders und verwandter Berufsangehöriger. Von F. Wenzel... Leipzig: Jüstel & Göttel, 1914. 2. ed., rev. & enl. 411 p. 8°. A comprehensive reference book by the editor of the Maler-Zeitung, Leipzig. A wealth of practical information about tools, materials and technique. Has 39 pages of index; also several glossaries. Lacks illustrations. |