Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Simply Explained / A Practical Treatise Embracing Complete and Detailed Explanations of the Theory and Practice of Modern Radio Apparatus and Its Present Day Applications, Together With a Chapter on the Possibilities of Its Future Development

Chapter 30: ICE AND REFRIGERATION

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The text explains the physical principles of wireless transmission and reception, describing electromagnetic oscillations and how waves are radiated and intercepted, then surveys practical apparatus such as aerial systems, transmitters, receivers, coils, condensers, spark gaps and detectors. It treats tuning, coupling and directional methods, discusses telephone transmitters and the wireless telephone, and outlines applications in maritime, military and aerial service. Chapters interweave theory, constructional sketches and illustrations, and conclude with reflections on accomplishments, limitations and the technology's prospective development.

ICE AND REFRIGERATION

POCKET BOOK OF REFRIGERATION AND ICE MAKING. By A. J. WALLIS-TAYLOR This is one of the latest and most comprehensive reference books published on the subject of refrigeration and cold storage. It explains the properties and refrigerating effect of the different fluids in use, the management of refrigerating machinery and the construction and insulation of cold rooms with their required pipe surface for different degrees of cold; freezing mixtures and non-freezing brines, temperatures of cold rooms for all kinds of provisions, cold storage charges for all classes of goods, ice making and storage of ice, data and memoranda for constant reference by refrigerating engineers, with nearly one hundred tables containing valuable references to every fact and condition required in the installment and operation of a refrigerating plant. Illustrated. (5th Edition, revised.) Price $1.50