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when the hereditary instinct passed down 

 from father to son was sufficient to produce 

 each year practically the same results. New 

 processes come, which appear likely to improve 

 production or to reduce its cost ; the Works 

 Laboratory serves to test these. New pro- 

 ducts are suggested, which may or may not 

 have the advantages claimed for them; this 

 can be investigated in the Works Laboratory, 

 and all these investigations and tests must go 

 on in the works themselves under the eyes of 

 men familiar with the process of manufacture 

 in its every stage. 



A distinguished Trinity man, Mr Michael 

 Longridge, when recently addressing the 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, as their 

 President, he traced the process by which 

 during the latter half of last century England 

 became the leading industrial nation, con- 

 cluded thus : 



