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A Selected List on Industrial Arts and Engineering
Added to The New York Public Library

JANUARY-MARCH, 1923

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NEW TECHNICAL BOOKS

Titles marked with a star (*) are not for circulation, but may be consulted in the Science and Technology Division, Central Building, Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, daily from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. Sundays, 1 p. m. to 10 p. m.

Allcut, E. A., and CHARLES J. KING. Engineering inspection. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1922. xv, 186 p. illus. 8°. 15s. VFG (121)

Mechanical engineering operations only. Advice as to receipt and storage of materials and how to make material tests; the inspection of raw, partly finished, and finished materials; gauges and measuring instruments; machine shop inspection; final tests; repairs, rectification and obsolete parts; and the qualifications of the chief inspector. Although written from the British standpoint there is much of value to Americans.

Reviewed in Mechanical world, Nov. 17, 1922; Power, Feb. 13, 1923; Power plant engineering, March 1, 1923.

Allen, Arthur H. Electricity in agriculture. The uses...in arable, pasture, dairy, and poultry farming; horticulture; pumping and irrigation; electroculture; and general mechanical and domestic service... London and New York: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1922. x, 117 p. illus. 12°. (Pitman's technical primers. no. 58.) 85¢. VGS (121)

Reviewed in Electrician, Jan. 26, 1923. Allen, Edith. Mechanical devices in the home. Peoria, Ill.: Manual Arts Press, 1922. 251 p. illus. 8°. $1.75. VSB

Profusely illustrated guide to the selection and installation of devices for heating, cooking, lighting, cleaning, refrigeration, and laundering, with elementary outline of electric, acetylene, and gas plants (including engines). Chapters on dumb-waiters, sewing machines, lawn mowers, incubators, type-writers, and measuring devices. For school and home use.

*American Institute of Medicine. Bibliography of radium, its uses and results from its discovery up to January, 1922. New York: Compiled for the United States Radium Corporation, 1922. 132 p. 8°. $2.50. WDK

Radium: Abstracts of selected articles on radium and radium therapy. New York: Compiled for the United States Radium Corporation, 1922. 164 p. 8°. $2.50.

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Chiefly medical references. The first list is classified in 15 sections with chronological arrangement under each.

Attwood, Edward L. Theoretical naval architecture. London and New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1922. ix, 512 p. illus. 8°. $4.20. VXH (121)

Revision of work of nearly similar title which has passed through several editions since 1899. Principles and calculations, with a large number of problems, but does not consider "laying off" or practical construction. Chapters on screw and wind propulsion, rolling, turning, and launching.

Auden, Harold A. Starch and starch products. London and New York: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1922. xiii, 121 p. illus. 12°. $1.00. (Common commodities and industries.) VOD (119)

Different sources of starch and manufacturing processes stated simply, with interesting historical background.

"The writer has...refused to confine himself either to the chemistry, or the technology of the subject, but has made many references to botanical, entomological, and other fields, such as folklore, considering that they have equal claims upon the interest of the general reader." Preface.

Ballantine, Stuart. Radio telephony for amateurs. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1922. 296 p. illus. 8°. $1.50. TTF (121)

More carefully prepared than the usual book of this type. Endeavors to present a maximum amount of practical information; to furnish an elementary theoretical web; and "to deal with hard facts rather than with soft fancies." Author was formerly expert radio aid, U. S. Navy.

Batson, R. G., and J. H. HYDE. Mechanical testing. v. 2: Testing of prime movers, machines, structures and engineering apparatus. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1922. xi, 446 p. illus. 8°. £1, 5s.

VEE (121)

Chapters 1-8, dynamometer testing. Chapters on gears; springs; lubricants; bearings; concrete slabs; concrete and reinforced concrete beams; columns and struts; cutting tools; vibrations; the application and measurement of hydraulic pressure; aircraft models. Clearly and copiously illustrated. For notice of v. 1, see New technical books, v. 7, no. 3, p. 33.

Reviewed in Mechanical world, Jan. 12, 1923.

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Bishop, Carlton Thomas. drafting and the design of details. York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1922. xiii, 352 p. 2. ed. rev. illus. obl. 8°. $5.00. VFE (121)

Revision covers mainly the changes in the standards of the Association of American Steel Manufacturers, and of the Bethlehem Steel Company, and the specifications of the American Railway Engineering Association.

"The book...is a credit to both author and publisher and will doubtless long continue to be the leading authority on the subject." - Engineering news-record, Jan. 18, 1923.

Black, William H. Structural steelwork, a practical treatise on the basic principles, methods, and data of structural design by calculation and graphic statics, illustrated by the design of a complete steel-framed building. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1922. x, 102 p. illus. 12°. 85¢. VEH (121) Reviewed in Public works, London, Jan., 1923.

Bland, M. C. Handbook of steel erection. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1923. ix, 241 p. illus. 12°. $2.50. VEH (121)

Details various items and calculations for a well equipped outfit, such as locomotive cranes, derricks, travelers, etc. Computations for several representative problems in building and bridge erection. Mathematical tables.

Bliss, Louis Denton. Theoretical and practical electrical engineering, comprising

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course of lectures given at the Bliss Electrical School upon the principles and applications of both direct and alternating current apparatus. Washington: Bliss Electrical School, 1922. 2 v. 2. ed. 8°. $8.00. VGC (121)

Devoid of heavy mathematics, provided with 1287 unusually clear illustrations, 1384 searching questions, and a simple text, the reader has a comparatively easy road to an understanding of complex electrical machinery. Chapters on telephony, telegraphy, lighting, and a survey of actual and projected hydro-electric and steam turbine stations.

Reviewed in Electrical world, Feb. 10, 1923.

Brock, A. St. H. Pyrotechnics: the history and art of firework making... London: Daniel O'Connor, 1922. xv, 197 p. illus. 4°. £1, 5s. VOG (119)

"My object has not been to write a text-book on firework-making, but rather to trace the art from earliest times, and to give a description of the development and process of manufacture.'

Attractively illustrated. Bibliography, p. 182-185. *Chalkley, A. P. Diesel engines for land and marine work... New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1922. xvii, 330 p. illus. 5. ed. 8°. $6.00. VFM (121)

Theoretical portion unaltered, but includes practice introduced since last edition (1915).

"The engines described are strictly European, and the American reader will regret that Mr. Chalkley has seen fit to ignore the progress in the United States... The volume is well written and finely illustrated with drawings of modern engines. No engineer should fail to include [it] in his five-foot bookshelf." Power, Jan. 9, 1923.

Christman, John M. Shop mathematics. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1922. 321, lxviii p. illus. 8°. $2.60. VFC (121)

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Clayton, William. The theory of emulsions and emulsification... Foreword by Prof. F. G. Donnan. London: J. and A. Churchill, 1923. vi, 160 p. illus. 8°. 9s. 6d. PLD (119)

Has bibliography, 1865 date.

"The title...does less than justice to its contents, inasmuch as the two concluding chapters on 'Emulsifi cation' and 'De-emulsification' contain a great deal of technical information on large-scale apparatus and procedure which has not been readily accessible so far. The large number of industrial processes in which the separation of emulsions forms an important and difficult problem may come as a surprise to many readers.' Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, Feb. 16, 1923.

Also reviewed in Journal of the Franklin Institute, March, 1923; Chemical news, London, Dec. 29, 1922.

Cooke, J. Herbert. The velvet and corduroy industry; a brief account of the various processes connected with the manufacture of cotton pile goods. London and New York: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1922. ix, 116 p. illus. 12°. $1.00.

VLLE (121) Includes historical introduction and an account of outlets, markets, and tariffs.

Crabtree, J. H. The cotton industry from raw cotton to woven cloth. London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1922. 126 p. illus. 8°. 6s. VLLE (121) Brief and untechnical, with numerous halftone illustrations. Much of historical interest.

Croft, Terrell. Steam-turbine principles and practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1923. xi, 347 p. illus. 8°. $3.00. VFK (121)

Essentials of successful and economical operation and of knowledge necessary to enable one to make a wise choice of a turbine. Minimum of theory and no mathematics beyond arithmetic. 282 illustrations that really illustrate. Questions, problems and answers.

*Dole, Nathan Haskell. America in Spitsbergen; the romance of an Arctic coalmine, with an introduction relating the history and describing the land and the flora and fauna of Spitsbergen. Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1922. 2 v. 8°. $25.00. VHW (117)

Mainly a record of fourteen adventurous years during which a coal mine, with modern equipment, was established within 800 miles of the North Pole. Reviewed in Engineering and mining journal-press, Feb. 17, 1923.

Dover, A. T. Industrial motor control. Direct current, dealing with the principles involved in the starting and speed control of D. C. motors for industrial services, and with the applications of these principles to control apparatus. London and New York: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1922. xii, 116 p. illus. 12°. 85¢. (Pitman's technical primers. no. 48.) VGI (121)

To illustrate fundamental principles the author describes one example of each type. Chapter on grading of starting rheostats for both shunt and series motors. 55 illustrations. Author is head of the electrical department, Battersea Polytechnic, London. Reviewed in Nature, Dec. 16, 1922.

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