A practical book for repairmen who have to do with the locating of troubles and the repair of electric motors in repair shop work, power station work, and industrial plants. The matter is for the most part a compilation from various sources.
Author is managing editor of Electrical World.
Forest products: their manufacture and use. N. C. Brown. Wiley. 471p. $3.75.
Treats of the production, manufacture and use of many important forest products, but not of lumber. Chapters are devoted to wood pulp and paper; tanning materials; veneers; cooperage; turpentine, tar, pitch; wood distillation; charcoal; railroad ties; piles and piling; posts; mine timbers; fuelwood; shingles; maple syrups and sugar; rubber; dyewoods and materials; excelsior; cork. A bibliography accompanies each of the 22 chapters.
Author is professor of forest utilization, New York College of Forestry, Syracuse University.
The wireless experimenter’s manual, incorporating “How to conduct a radio club.” Describes parliamentary procedure in the formation of a radio club; the design of wireless transmitting and receiving apparatus, long distance receiving sets, vacuum tube amplifiers, radio telegraph and telephone sets, the tuning and calibration of transmitters and receivers, general radio measurements and many other features. Completely revised and rewritten. E. E. Bucher. Wireless press. 350p. $2.25.
One of the best books for the amateur wireless experimenter.
Author is instructing engineer, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.
The essentials of business law. rev. ed. F. M. Burdick. Appleton. 361p.
A high school text-book, plainly written, designed to teach “those legal principles and ideas involved in ordinary business affairs,” and some of their applications.