THE main value of this book will undoubtedly lie in the tables, which fill about 100 of its pages, and give in an admirably complete form the results of no less than 405 tests of the efficiency of ...
IN a recent note on “The Future of Steam Propulsion”, reference was made to a paper on the relative merits of steam and oil engines for ships (NATURE, 137, 267; 1936). The subject is one of ...