The Mechanical Properties of Fluids: a Collective Work

Abstract

IN the introduction to this work, which is apparently the first of a series to be devoted to applied science, Vice-Admiral Sir George Goodwin, the late Engineer-in-Chief of the Navy, acknowledging that in the present day engineering requires a great deal of help from branches of science with which it has not hitherto been closely associated, insists that engineering practice to be worthy of the name must keep abreast of and in touch with all the developments and discoveries in these fields. What Sir George has in mind is doubtless something more than the inculcation of the principle of keeping, by engineering firms of repute, of a staff of physicists on the premises, sufficiently domesticated to deal with the particular scientific problems which arise, the adoption of which by the fighting services is one of the most remarkable effects of the War. He is evidently of opinion that the engineer should himself be familiar with the fundamental principles by means of which the solution of the various problems which confront him must be attempted. The Mechanical Properties of Fluids: a Collective Work. By Dr. C. V. Drysdale Dr. Allan Ferguson Dr. A. E. M. Geddes Dr. A. H. Gibson Eng. Vice-Adm. Sir George Goodwin F. R. W. Hunt Dr. Horace Lamb A. G. M. Michell G. I. Taylor. (Applied Physics Series.) Pp. xv + 362. (London: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1923.) 20s. net.