Cochrane, Charles H. Modern industrial progress. [**]$3 Lippincott.
“The tremendous industrial progress of the past few decades is recorded in this volume in brief descriptions of many inventions and discoveries and new applications of old discoveries.” (Outlook). “Among the numerous subjects discussed are electricity, including the progress made by Marconi, great canals and tunnels, bridges, tools of destruction, great farms and farming machinery, the iron horse and the railways, foods, engineering enterprises, newspapers and periodicals, instruments of science, cotton, wool, and texture manufactures, etc.” (Bookm.) There are over four hundred illustrations.
| + + + | Acad. 68: 496. My. 6, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + | Critic. 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 60w. |
“In a straightforward, practicable manner, makes clear the recent steps in the field of mechanics and invention.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 80w. | |
| + + + | Dial. 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 230w. |
“Such books as this are especially useful in school and public libraries. Not as interestingly written as might be, but full of information.”
| + — | Ind. 58: 270. F. 2, ‘05. 70w. |
“The work is therefore encyclopædic in scope, and, as it is the production of a single mind, is neither profound in treatment nor remarkable for accuracy. Carelessness in composition and revision makes many of the sentences, to say the least, ambiguous. As a scientific treatise, the book is worthless. As a popular survey of modern progress, were it more carefully written and more generously indexed, it would be useful.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 191. Mr. 9, ‘05. 240w. |
“Mr. Cochrane’s subject is large, and he has pretty well covered it. His book is as full of meat as an egg; and good meat it seems to be, too.”