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IN the student days of their career the majority of electrical engineers are strongly attracted towards the design and manufacture of large machines. To design a 10,000-h.p. dynamo is found to be easier and far more exciting than to invent some small improvement in a measuring instrument. This is one of the reasons which make it far more difficult to get—for instance—a manager for a telephone factory than for a large machine shop. The former would probably be offered a salary four times as large as the latter, although the latter probably did much better during his college course. It is advisable, therefore, for students to remember that there are certain drawbacks to following what is for the moment the fashionable branch of engineering to the neglect of much more profitable branches. Industrial Electrical Measuring Instruments. By Kenelm Edgcumbe. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xvi + 414. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1918.) Price 16s. net.

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