Steam Tables: Thermodynamic Properties of Water Including Vapor, Liquid, and Solid Phases

After being captured by the Super Friends Dr. Insano failed to stay current on the Mt.Doom Laboratory/Hideout. As such my self and the other research assistants were locked out by the landlord. As we wait for the writ of reentry to work its way through the court system we are forced to make do without our mainframes, reel to reels and magnetic tapes full of experimental data. In light of our predicament this book is a good back-to-basics compilation of steam data, with enough resolution as to eliminate the need for interpolation in most cases. It doesn't matter if you are a Mad Scientist working on his(or her, MORE GIRLS IN S.T.E.M.S !) next doomsday device, a Mad Grad student working on his/her dissertation on mayhem this book is a God send.

This book is a must for anyone wanting to avoid interpolation. It has the most comprehensive steam table there is that I have seen. Sometimes small errors can lead you to get problems wrong. This book solved that issue for me. It has a nice history also in the front pages. I will keep this book as part of my library.

I'm not a fan of crunching engineering problems. However, if one can simply the process, I'm all for it. I've made this purchase on the advice of some colleague's experience and I've benefited the tip. In short, this will help save you from the arduous tasks of interpolating during test situation. It's arguable that software can iterate and solve faster. Until you are actually running numbers for a company and able to justify a purchased program, I think this book is very handy.

I liked the timely and courteous service. My STEAM TABLES arrived in perfect condition. I use the STEAM TABLES book to teach myself thermodynamic principles for the purpose of general interest. I became interested in this subject when I was trained in ship propulsion plants while in the US Navy back in the early 1970's.

Used but satisfactorily presented.

Generations of engineers, and not a few chemists and physicists either, have depended on this book as the standard reference for the properties of water. This is the 1969 edition, and there is no more recent edition. Which should give you some idea of how definitively the authors described their subject. Perhaps the only suggestion for improvement is for a CD version that has the tables in some XML format that can be easily integrated into a computer program. Notice that this is different from other books which might have a CD version that duplicates the contents of the hardcopy. There, the CD's main advantage might be the ability to have a comprehensive all-word index. Here, where most of the book are tables of numbers, that need is not really relevant. Instead, where there are tables, the best use of CD would be to hold XML formatted tables.