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AS times change so the fundamental needs of particular types of students require re-orientation. The author has had considerable experience in training electrical students for varied branches of applied electricity, and the war-time pressure on educationists to emphasize telecommunications, especially radio, must lead them to reconsider what in fundamental theory their students must know in view of the known work they are later to undertake. Without anticipating more specialized telecommunication work, the author has found space, by rejecting the direct-current machine and the associated technology, for whole chapters on inductance, capacitance, and transformers, and their reaction to alternating currents. As a first introduction to the subject the author is clear and comprehensive, at every step indicating examples of magnitudes and usage ; the more subtle aspects of the subject do not, of course, appear.
Electrical Technology for Telecommunications
W. H.
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By. Pp. iv + 160. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1943.) 5s. net.
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HUGHES, L. Electrical Technology for Telecommunications. Nature 151, 378 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151378d0
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