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tions to our every-day industrial and technical problems. Such 

 research necessarily is of a highly specializ.ed nature and requires 

 special training. What is equally important, as is pointed out by 

 the author, is the need of properly organizing and directing this group 

 of specialized workers. Since research is a creative process and hence 

 particularly individualistic, one of the important problems in what 

 the author calls "organized research" is the supplying of such an 

 atmosphere that the worker realizes his own welfare and advance- 

 ment to be adequately cared for in this system of group working. 

 A number of examples of organized research are mentioned (radio 

 and wire telephony, telephotography, ocean telegraphy, speech and 

 hearing, artificial speech, phonograph recording and reproducing) 

 as apropos to the point in question. The close relationship between 

 engineering and research aud the impossibility of the one getting 

 along without the other is made clear. For the worker, there is pointed 

 out the necessity of management and for those in charge the soundness 

 of industrial research as a business proposition. Industrial research 

 far from being a luxury has become a necessity. 



