Title: Disorganized mess
Product review: Holm may have been exceedingly knowledgeable about electrical contacts, but this book is a mess. It would appear that the manuscript was in loose-leaf form, someone threw it down the stairs, his widow reassembled it in random order, and thus it was published. I have never seen such a hopelessly disorganized technical textbook before. Holm jumps into discussing things midstream, then many chapters later (if lucky) you will find the introduction, definitions, etc. that might make it feasible to understand what he was earlier in the midst of.If you want to understand electrical contacts, read the book by Paul G. Slade, instead. This is more current and never was thrown down the stairs at all.For a more basic, but clear (not muddled!) introduction to the science of contacts, read the "Ney Contact Manual". This can be downloaded freely from the Ney company website, after you have filled out a request form.
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