“The suggestions of reform are for the most part fragmentary and not sufficiently worked out to give the reader any adequate conception of their value or lack of it.”
| − | Ind. 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 360w. | |
| Lit. D. 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 490w. |
“We fear that Mr. Stickney is too optimistic, and too little appreciative of the difficulty in this country of achieving reforms by wholesale; but his shrewd observations and obvious seriousness make his book not uninteresting.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 220w. |
Still, Alfred. Polyphase currents. $2.50. Macmillan.
W 7–56.
“A large part of the book deals with the functions and properties of the power transmission line.... Concluding third of the volume is devoted to the induction and to the synchronous motor, including the rotary converter.”—Engin. N.
“Mr. Still’s book contains little that is novel in material or treatment. Its merit lies in a simple direct style and in the systematic arrangement of topics. A reference text which will be very useful to the operators of electrical machinery who desire to know something of the theory of their machines but who are not prepared or inclined to pursue the subject exhaustively.” Henry H. Norris.
| − + | Engin. N. 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 640w. |