Show GETTING SCIENCE INTO INDUSTRY The Tue wonder is that our great American industrial concerns have not given more attention to re re- research research re- re research search work in Improving their output and advancing their enter enter- Only of ot late have a num num- number number ber of big companies established laboratories to dig Into tho the chem- chem chemistry of their plants One ot of the eastern writers commenting on the action of o the United States Steel corporation says sas Science is Js to work for the United States Steel corporation To be sure the greatest organization tion Ion of ot its Us kind in fn the world has long ong had its laboratories but It has been their main function to make more or less routine analyses and ando anI to o control the processes whereby ore is converted con into hundreds ot of o products ranging from wire to gir gir- girders ders tiers No Xo startling discovery disco in the chemistry of iron and steel stands to o their credit The corporation has u made its lie w greatest C L technical strides in engineering In In lower lower- lowering ing ng production costs In IntroducIng introducing Ing ng new machinery in increasing tonnage Convinced no DO doubt by the he example ot of other large Indus- Indus industrial industrial trial rial organizations and above all by Sir Robert Hadfield of ot Sheffield and the great German ironmongers the he United States Steel corpora- corpora corporation lion Ion has decided to create a de de- department department department of ot research and technology ogy under the direction of ot Dr John Johnston ot of Yale a scientist ably qualified by technical education and experience to explore a field In n which scientific and industrial honors are to be bc won Grant Gr nt a lab laboratory laboratory oratory the tho right to work ork inched meled and both science and Indus Indus- industry try ry gain It was the tho adoption of ot this his large policy that made the tho discovery of ot ductile tungsten possible a possible a discovery that I unexpectedly gave us electric lamps amps ot of an economy and brilliancy undreamed of ot 20 years rears ago radio tubes that have made broadcasting and television tele islon twentieth century triumphs and deeply penetrating Xray ray tubes that have hav been a boon to the sick The The richest assets of ot some ot of our largest corporations are arc not their physical properties but the discoveries made in labor labor- atones |