TECHNICAL DIGESTS 



With this issue the first of a series of briefer articles, known 

 as "Technical Digests," is being introduced. These will re- 

 view papers by Bell System authors which appear in the 

 current numbers of other scientific or engineering periodicals. 



The purpose of these digests, which in length will run to 

 several times that of the usual abstract, may be given as two- 

 fold. By eliminating the need hitherto felt that numerous 

 articles be reprinted in full, a larger variety of subjects will find 

 compass in a given number of Technical Journal pages. Sec- 

 ondly and more important, it is hoped that the digests will 

 succeed in so outlining the important features of their respec- 

 tive articles as to make them available to a much wider circle of 

 readers than would have opportunity for a detailed reading or 

 study of the original. 



