Abstract
THE economic side of engineering is one which the student is generally left to pick up as best he can on his way through life. Little attention is paid to it as a rule in the course of his technical training, and it: is not until he starts on practical commercial work that he begins to realise that pounds, shillings and pence enter as much into the engineer's formulæ as the fundamental units of length, mass and time. These two books should be very useful, therefore, not only to the budding electric railway engineer, but also to all students of engineering, as serving to show the many things needed besides technical knowledge to make a good engineer.
Notes on Electric Railway Economics and Preliminary Engineering.
By W. C. Gotshall. Pp. iv + 251. (New York: McGraw Publishing Co., 1903.)
Engineering Preliminaries for an Interurban Electric Railway.
By E. Gonzenbach. Pp. 71. (New York: McGraw Publishing Co., 1903.)
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S., M. Notes on Electric Railway Economics and Preliminary Engineering Engineering Preliminaries for an Interurban Electric Railway . Nature 69, 579–580 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069579b0
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