SCIENCE, INDUSTRY, AND EDUCATION 



The supreme value of research in pure science for the 

 success and progress of the national industries of a country 

 can no longer be regarded as a question open to debate, since 

 this principle has not only been accepted in theory, but 

 put in practice on a large scale, at a great original cost, in 

 a neighbouring country, with the most complete success. 



The Physikalisch-technische Reichsanstalt of Berlin, 

 largely due to the scientific foresight of von Helmholtz, 

 was instituted in recognition of the principle that all the 

 industrial applications of science rest on the foundation 

 of pure scientific discovery. The Institute has for its 

 main objects (i) The conduct of pure physical research, 

 especially in such directions as are suggested by industrial 

 questions ; (2) The construction and supply of electrical 

 and physical standards ; (3) The verification of instruments 

 of precision for scientific and technical purposes. 



[This great Government Institution is now to be 

 supplemented by a corresponding Reichsanstalt for 

 Chemistry. Germany has long understood, what we are 

 only beginning to learn, that the industrial developments 

 of physics and of chemistry, on which to-day the welfare 

 and the progress of a country so largely depend, can be 

 adequately secured only by institutions receiving ample 

 national support. (1906.)] 



The original cost of the Institute was over 200,000, 

 and its yearly maintenance is not less than 17,000. During 

 the five years that it has been at work its influence upon 



the science and the manufacturing interests of Germany 



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