Excerpt from Recent Progress in Electric Railways: Being a Summary of Current Periodical Literature Relating to Electric Railway Construction, Operation, Systems, Machinery, Appliances, Etc
In the earlier days of the development of electrical engineering the current literature was so small in amount and the branches so few that the electrical engineer who wished to do so found little difficulty in keeping up with the progress in every department, and in making sufficient notes or abstracts to permit of reference to the various sources in which information of interest to him had been published.
The progress in this active field during the past few years has been such, however, that the volume of current electrical literature, as well as the number of branches of electrical engineering, is becoming so great as to render it almost if not quite impossible for one to keep satisfactorily informed of all that is going on in the different departments, much less to take the time to keep notes and records that will enable him afterward to refer back to an article or description that he knows he has read, but docs not remember where.
The numerous electrical and other technical journals, which give such a large amount of valuable information, must cover so many fields that their bound volumes are not convenient records in any one branch, besides being of necessity large and bulky, and therefore not handy for connected reading or for subsequent reference.
As a consequence of this it is thought that a series of little volumes in clear, legible type, well printed on good paper and substantially bound in cloth, containing a resume to date of what is of value in current electrical literature, will appeal to those who do not wish to lag in the march of progress.
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