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HAUSBRAND'S work, the first English edition of which appeared in 1903, has long been recognised as an authority on the subject. It sets before the engineer, in a readily applicable form, the results of experiments in physics and of large-scale plant processes, and contains a number of valuable tables. In the present edition, the work carried out in the National Physical Laboratory in 1916, which confirmed the earlier investigations of Osborne Reynolds on fluid flow, is taken into account. It supersedes the empirical results which were previously the only ones available, and large changes have been made in the sections and tables dealing with this part of the subject. The experiments on heat losses by radiation and convection, also made in the National Physical Laboratory in 1923, have been dealt with by the reviser, and a chapter has been added on modern evaporating plants. These and other alterations have considerably improved the work, and the English translation is therefore much in advance of the German edition. When the great amount of valuable information in the book is considered, the price must be regarded as moderate.
Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus: Explanation, Formulæ and Tables for Use in Practice.
E.
Hausbrand
By. Translated from the second revised German edition by A. C. Wright. Fourth English edition revised and enlarged by Basil Heastie. Pp. 468. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1929.) 25s. net.
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Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus: Explanation, Formulæ and Tables for Use in Practice . Nature 124, 573 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124573b0
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