TY - JOUR
AU - S., M.
AB - ELECTRIC wiring is not a very suitable subject on which to write a primer. From the wireman's point of view it is a subject to be studied only by practical apprenticeship; from the engineer's it is a special branch of electrical work to be taken up at a time when primers are things of the past. Nor do we quite see the right of such a book to a place in Mr. Murray's “Home and School Library,” which is intended (as an advertisement sets forth) for the general reader as well as for school use. The general reader does not want to know how to make joints, and the schoolboy would be far better employed learning the first principles of electricity instead of the elementary details of one of its practical applications. Apart from considerations such as these, it must be admitted that Mr. Clinton has done his work well and written an interesting little book. He deals with wiring for both electric light and electric bells, and as these between them involve the principles of electricity, magnetism and electrochemistry, he has said a few words about the theory of all three subjects, and has strengthened these by the addition of some worked examples of an elementary character. The theoretical parts are necessarily brief, the bulk of the book being devoted to descriptions of the practical work, which are clearly written and well illustrated. A little more space might have been given to the construction of bell indicators and to the maintenance and peculiarities of batteries, both of more importance to the wireman than the details of the manufacture of electric incandescent lamps. Also the distribution of lamps to give the best illumination, the use of globes and shades, and the ageing of incandescent lamps are all subjects on which wiremen would be wise to be informed, which are dealt with either inadequately or not at all. There is a question we should like to ask: Is Mr. Clinton correct in saying that the B.C. holder is known as the “bottom contact”? We had always thought that the letters stood for “bayonet cap,” and certainly “bayonet holder” is much the more general phrase.
TI - Electric Wiring: a Primer for the Use of Wiremen and Students
JF - Nature
DO - 10.1038/066629b0
DA - 1902-10-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/electric-wiring-a-primer-for-the-use-of-wiremen-and-students-0HS6NATIvY
SP - 629
EP - 630
VL - 66
IS - 1721
DP - DeepDyve
ER -