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fold? The problems we have to solve are hard enough; give us means 

 to employ the best men and we will answer them; starve us and then 

 ipiote our failure as showing the uselessness of science applied to 

 industry. There is some justice in the criticism of one of our technical 



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papers. I have recently been advertising for assistants, and a paper 

 in whose columns the advertisement appears writes: 



"The scale of pay is certainly not extravagant, It is, however, pos- 

 sible that the duties will be correspondingly light." 



I have thus summarized in a brief manner the aims of the labora- 

 tory and have indicated the 

 effect which the application 

 of science to industry has 

 had on one branch of trade 

 in Germany. And now let 

 me illustrate these aims by 

 a more detailed account of 

 some of the problems of in- 

 dustry which have been 

 solved by the application of 

 science, and then of some 

 others which remain un- 

 solved and which the labora- 

 tory hopes to attack. The 

 story of the Jena glass works 



is most interesting; we will _.| » :"__> 



take it first. 



An exhibition of scientific 

 apparatus took place in London in 1878. Among the visitors to this was 

 Professor Abbe, of Jena, and in a report he wrote on the optical appara- 

 tus he called attention to the need for progress in the art of glass making 

 if the miscroscope were to advance and to the necessity for obtaining 



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