A tribute to McGraw-Hill's fluid mechanics books

Let's wrap up the current round of book publisher tributes with this look at McGraw-Hill's books on fluid mechanics.  Like Wiley discussed in the last post, McGraw-Hill published two widely used introductory fluid mechanics texts, the venerable one by Victor L. Streeter and coauthors, which seems to now be finally retired, and the more recent one by Frank M. White, just out in its 9th edition.  I have neither book, but their authors are represented in the following photo.

Some McGraw-Hill fluid mechanics books.

Streeter's Handbook of Fluid Dynamics was part of the publisher's Handbook series, which was quite prolific in its day.  It was joined in the series by McGraw-Hill's more recent Fluid Flow Handbook, edited by Jamal Saleh (2002), now also out of print.  White's Viscous Fluid Flow (2d edition above; the 4th edition came out this year) was part of McGraw-Hill's Series in Mechanical Engineering, as were the 7th edition of Schlichting (shown above), John D. Anderson's Modern Compressible Flow, Frank S. Sherman's Viscous Flow, and J. O. Hinze's Turbulence.  Also seen above is Katz & Plotkin's Low-Speed Aerodynamics, part of McGraw-Hill's Series in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering, which itself was once edited by Anderson.  Evidently a number of books in that series were cross-listed with the Mechanical Engineering Series.

The Brodkey & Hershey text seen on the right in the photo is a representative of McGraw-Hill's Chemical Engineering Series.  It must have been a flagship for the publisher, as the pre-title pages explain its history dating back to 1925.  It brags that the series "stands as a unique historical record of the development of chemical engineering education and practice.  In the series one finds the milestones of the subject's evolution:  industrial chemistry, stoichiometry, unit operations and processes, thermodynamics, kinetics, and transfer operations."  A few books in the series are still available from the publisher today.

The three books on the right illustrate the handsome livery of these engineering series, though Brodkey & Hershey's is hidden by the dust jacket.