Industrial Electronics

AbstractIF the reader is not full of wrath when he discovers, by diligent search or by stumbling over a single sentence on page 41, that this book denies communication engineering a place in industry (“This type of equipment is used primarily for communication purposes, which is outside the scope of this book”), he will like it; its English is in general well above the level of the unhappy example which has intruded itself here. Even without its applications in the communications industry, “industrial electronics” is a wide subject of very general appeal. The engineer will find the book interesting and valuable, not merely for the large amount of detailed information which it provides on applications already effected, but also because it is stimulatingly suggestive of new applications and developments yet to be made. The authors have succeeded in compressing a great deal of information into a relatively small compass, but the compression has been carried too far; clarity and ease of reading have been sacrificed. Fig. 85, p. 67, will suffice as an example of loss of clarity which might have been avoided by adding three lines of text.Industrial Electronics By F. H. Gulliksen E. H. Vedder. Pp. xiv + 245. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1935.) 17s. 6d. net.