GOOD ENGINEERING LITERATURE What to Read and How to Write By HARWOOD FROST M. Am. Soc. M. E., M. Soc. Prom. Eng. Educ. Formerly Editor of "The Engineering Digest" "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, Published by the Author Distributing Sales Agents CHICAGO BOOK COMPANY 226 So. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. CF THE TIBRARY OF CALIFORNIA GENERAL F7 Copyright 1911 by HARWOOD FROST Entered at Stationer's Hall, London, E. C. 1911 All Rights Reserved Published April, 1911 PREFACE Every book should have a Preface. It opens up the subject with the reader much as the state of the weather opens a conversation between strangers. In the present case, the subject—the making, selecting, and reading of engineering literature-is one on which, up to this time, there has been practically nothing in published form, excepting a few reprints of lectures and occasional periodical articles. A treatment of this important subject has been long needed, and I offer no apologies for the present attempt. But such a work is peculiarly open to criticism and in anticipation of such, I may say that I am already well aware of its many imperfections and faults, both of omission and commission. The material itself is an elaboration of that given in addresses to engineering students in the early part of 1910, and its presentation in a printed book is the outgrowth of a request that this material be given in a more permanent and useful form than that of oral discourse. When the writing was commenced it was the intention to issue two or three pamphlets only; but as the work progressed, the fact developed that while there is plenty of literature for the V. 219046 |