ON THE CONVERSION OF HEAT INTO WORK. A Practical Handbook on Heat-Engines. By William Anderson, M.Inst.C.E. With 55 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, pp. viii-252, 6s. cloth.
The object of this work is to popularize the doctrine that, in heat-engines, the work given out is due to the conversion of the molecular motion of heat into the visible motion which it is desired to produce; and further to illustrate, by numerous practical examples, the applicability of the doctrine of Sadi Carnot to defining the limits within which improvement in the economical working of heat-engines is possible.
THE TELEPHONE AND ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. By W. H. Preece, F.R.S., and J. Maier, Ph.D. [Ready shortly.
“THE SPECIALISTS’ SERIES.”
A New Series of Handbooks for Students and Practical Engineers.
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Electric Lighting.
ARC AND GLOW LAMPS. A Practical Handbook on Electric Lighting. By Julius Maier, Ph.D., Assoc. Soc. Tel. Eng., etc. With 78 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, pp. viii-376, 7s. 6d. cloth. [Just Published.
The whole system of modern electric illumination is dealt with in this volume. It gives a detailed description of all the principal modern generators and lamps, together with conductors and the other appliances required in electric light installations.
It contains also a full account of the various Applications of Electric Lighting up to recent date.
“The author has collected all the most recent available information concerning the process of manufacture, life, &c., of arc and glow lamps in a very convenient and readable form. Indeed, we do not know any work in which the subject is, on the whole, so fully handled.”—The Engineer.
Electric Transmission of Energy.