SCIEiSrCE AND INDUSTEIAL RESEARCH — CARTY. 625 



conditions to-day are such that without cooperation among them- 

 selves the small concerns can not have the full benefits of industrial 

 research, for no one among them is sufficiently strong to maintain the 

 necessary staff and laboratories. Once the vital importance of this 

 subject is appreciated by the small manufacturers many solutions of 

 the problem will promptly appear. One of these is for the manufac- 

 turer to take his problem to one of the industrial research laboratories 

 already established for the purpose of serving those who can not 

 afford a laboratory of their own. Other manufacturers doing the 

 same, the financial encouragement received would enable the labora- 

 tories to extend and improve their facilities so that each of the small 

 manufacturers who patronizes them would in course of time have the 

 benefit of an institution similar to those maintained by our largest 

 industrial concerns. 



Thus, in accordance with the law of supply and demand, the small 

 manufacturer may obtain the benefits of industrial research in the 

 highest degree, and the burden upon each manufacturer would be only 

 in accordance with the use he made of it, and the entire cost of the 

 laboratories would thus be borne by the industries as a whole, where 

 the charge properly belongs. Many other projects are now being 

 considered for the establishment of industrial research laboratories 

 for those concerns which can not afford laboratories of their own, and 

 in some of these cases the possible relation of these laboratories to our 

 technical and engineering schools is being earnestly studied. 



Until the manufacturers themselves are aroused to the necessity of 

 action in the matter of industrial research there is no plan which 

 can be devised that will result in the general establishment of research 

 laboratories for the industries. But once their need is felt and their 

 value appreciated and the demand for research facilities is put forth 

 by the manufacturers themselves, research laboratories will spring up 

 in all our great centers of industrial activity. Their number and 

 character and size and their method of operation and tlieir relation 

 to the technical and engineering schools and the method of their 

 working with the different industries are all matters which involve 

 many interesting problems — problems which I am sure will be solved 

 as they present themselves and when their nature has been clearly 

 apprehended. 



In the present state of the world's development there is nothing 

 which can do more to advance American industries than the adop- 

 tion by our manufacturers generally of industrial research conducted 

 on scientific principles. I am sure that if they can be made to appre- 

 ciate the force of this statement, our manufacturers will rise to the 

 occasion with all that energy and enterprise so characteristic of 

 America. 



