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McGRAW-HILL AUTHORS

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McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, Inc.
NEW YORK: 370 SEVENTH AVENUE
LONDON: 6 & 8 BOUVERIE ST., E. C. 4
1922

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The McGraw-Hill Book Company was formed on July 1,1909, by a consolidation of the book departments of the McGrawPublishing Company and the Hill Publishing Company, thenseparate publishers of engineering journals and books. For overtwenty years, prior to the formation of the McGraw-Hill BookCompany, the several journals controlled by Mr. McGraw andMr. Hill (now published by the McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., aseparate organization) had been producing books in their specialfields; but the publication of technical books had not been broughtto the high standard of technical journals.

From the beginning we adopted the slogan, Better Books inText and Manufacture. It was evident to the men who hadbrought the leading technical journals of the country from comparativeinsignificance to positions of influence that there was needof a new technical literature—a literature for classroom andreference which should adequately supplement their periodicals.

Our first efforts were largely in the field of engineering, butpresently we set new goals for ourselves. By processes whichseemed natural to us, we have extended our publishing not onlyinto the fields of chemistry, physics, mathematics and English,with a view always of supplying better fundamental textbooksfor students, but also into the fields of agriculture, businessadministration and economics. Similarly our range of publishinghas broadened from the somewhat restricted field of appliedscience, to include numerous works of high standard dealing withpure science.

In all these fields the aim has been, not only to produce abetter grade of text and reference book, but to put behind eachbook a selling organization so competent that the maximummarket, both in this country and abroad, would be reached.[pg vi]Without this the possibility of persuading important men, in allbranches of science, to produce textbooks seemed futile, for theauthor's return must always be in proportion to the distribution.

The association with the journals of the McGraw-Hill Company,which we represent in all matters pertaining to the productionof books, brings us into close contact with the widestrange of engineering and industrial activities. The circulationsof these journals include the leading engineers and executivesof the world. The list follows:

• American Machinist
• Electric Railway Journal
• Electrical World
• Engineering and Mining Journal-Press
• Coal Age
• Engineering News-Record...