Présentation de l'éditeur
No HU vc PREFACE As an editor, the authors heart has often ached at the manner in which contributions to technical journals of permanent value and usefulness form a procession to the limbo of forgotten things and benefit none but those under whose eyes they happen to fall at the date of publication. This volume is primarily an effort to rescue from the oblivion of the out of print such contributions as are of direct use in the design of machinery. The search for material has not, of course, been limited to periodicals but has exteiided to the transactions of many engineering societies, wherein information is nearly as effectively buried as in the back numbers of periodicals. In filling the gaps that remained after the search was completed, willing friends have come to the authors assistance. Not only is this the way in which this volume has been prepared, but the author is convinced that it is the only way, and, more than this, that there should be deliberate co-operation between contributors, editors and collectors, with efforts focused on books of this character as the ultimate outcome. To be more specific, the author is under no delusions regarding the many things that should be between these covers but that are not, nor of those others of which the data presented are inadequate but, now that a place has been provided for the preservation of information of the sort here gathered together, he hopes that increased activity in the preparation and the publication of such information will follow. Hi will certainly be glad to do his part toward the incorporation of such information in future editions. Assistance may be rendered in other ways than by preparing contributions. Wide as the search has been, it is not possible that all of the articles and papers that contain desirable data have been discovered. Those who know of such sources of information are invite
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