“He is able, earnest, and learned, constructive, occasionally conservative, as well as critical.”
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Rateau, A. Experimental researches on the flow of steam through nozzles and orifices, to which is added a note on the flow of hot water; authorized tr. by H. Boyd Brydon. [*]$1.50. Van Nostrand.
“This little book on the flow of steam is an expansion of” Prof Rateau’s “report to the congress of applied mechanics in 1890.... The object of the investigation was to determine the conditions governing the discharge from large conoidal convergent nozzles and an orifice in a thin plate, both above and below the ratio p equals 0.58 P.”—Engin. N.
“His work is painstaking in the extreme. One or two obvious typographical errors are noted. It is an interesting addition to the literature on the flow of steam through nozzles.” Strickland L. Kneass.
| + + — | Engin. N. 53: 533. My. 18, ‘05. 650w. |
“The translation is clear. It is, however, a defect, for English readers, that the principal formulæ are left as given by the author in foreign units.”
| + + — | Nature. 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 210w. |
Rathbone, Eleanor F. William Rathbone: a memoir. $3. Macmillan.
In this memoir of her father, a Liverpool merchant, the author gives his life, his well-known work in parliament and in various philanthropic movements.