Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, held Wednesday, January 15, 1890

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1890
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 294 KB
• Volume: 129
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(90)90279-r

✦ Synopsis

of this subject is not clear enough to enable the neophyte to distinguish at once between the absolute heating effect and the number of heat units evolved--between calorific quantity and calorific intensity, and between the comparative calorific effects of equal volumes and of equal weights. This whole intricate subject which lies at the base of modern mechanical problems might be so systematized as to make it both more clear and more attractive.

Nevertheless it is not intended to disparage the volume by this criticism. It contains excellences in its practical portions, which more than offset their deficiencies. These are so numerous that it would take a whole article to enumerate and call attention to them.

Among them may be mentioned the introduction on fnel; the essay on coal ; the effect of heat on fuels ; wood, charcoal and coke ; gaseous, liquid and minor fuels; prevention of smoke; domestic heating, including gas heating and cooking-stoves ; hot-blast stoves ; general principles of washing coal, and many other things.

It is without doubt the most useful and comprehensive book in the English language on fuels, and is a valuable acquisition to our standard books of reference.

F.