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transformer core loss because of the great saving of power 
throughout the United States. 
The lamp work is located on the fourth floor. A small 
factory for the manufacture of all kinds of lights is main- 
tained. Photometers of every description for testing ef- 
ficiency and the most modern apparatus for making life test 
are on this floor. 
Also laboratories of a purely scientific nature with no 
definite end in view are maintained simply to contribute 
to scientific thought. Often they suggest definite problems 
which are of commercial value to the Company. 
Besides the one laboratory described, the General Elec- 
tric Company maintains research laboratories at the Lynn 
and Pittsfield plants which specialize on the production 
problems. There are lamp development laboratories at 
Harrison and Cleveland which develop and standardize 
new processes, materials, and lamp designs for the factory. 
There is the physical laboratory at Cleveland, which con- 
ducts experiments in physical and physiological aspects of 
light and illumination. There is the illuminating labora- 
tory at Schenectady devoted wholly to illuminating engineer- 
ing. There is also the consulting engineering department 
laboratory, the testing laboratory, and the standardizing 
laboratory which are all separate from the main research 
laboratory. 
One of the coming research laboratories is that of the 
Western Electric Company who are the manufacturers of 
all the telephone and telegraph instruments used in U.S. A. 
This company is affiliated with the American Bell Tele- 
phone and Telegraph Company and manufacture all ap- 
paratus used by this company. Two months ago I had the 
pleasure of visiting this laboratory. 
There are in the United States at least fifty splendidly 
equipped research laboratories, some of them spending over 
one-half million dollars per year. 
So a few of the industries have broken down the tradi- 
tion that their business and the academic trained scientists 
have no connection. 
