Excerpt from Heavy Electrical Engineering

Many text books have been published under the general title of "Electrical Engineering." An examination of these books reveals on the part of their authors a conception of the preferential scope of the subject which is at complete variance with my conception. Hence, beyond the similarity of title, there is nothing in common between the present treatise and these others.

I have omitted routine descriptive material as well as the elementary generalities regarding electricity and magnetism, and I have directed my efforts to an attempt to familiarize the reader with various considerations and calculations of which a sound, knowledge should be acquired in order to enable him effectively to engage in practical electrical engineering work.

Regrettable as it appears, it is nevertheless a fact that the real progress in electrical engineering is being made by too small a majority of those engaged in the electrical engineering profession. Many have not the remotest approach to broad knowledge of the subject; often they have not the energy or the enterprise to exercise their own reasoning faculties. Such are hardly more than figure-heads desirous on the one hand of being on the side of the most fashionable engineering fad, so soon as there is no longer any doubt of its being fashionable, and on the other hand hesitating to depart from the cut-and-dried practice of years standing, which makes the preparation of plans a mere matter of copying, and eliminates all risk and uncertainty. Swayed by these opposing tendencies, they soon become incapable of seeing any engineering question in its true aspects.

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