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ies entirely overhauled a number of times in the past few 
years in order to make the newest lamps. Not only have 
entire floors of complicated and expensive machines for 
making carbon lamps been thrown out and new machinery 
for making metal filament lamps installed, but before pack- 
ing cases containing new machines could be opened and un- 
packed in the factory they have been thrown out as useless, 
as the advance from squirted metal filaments to drawn wire 
filaments proved the better way. Before the limit of fac- 
tory efficiency on vacuum lamps could be reached, the in- 
troduction of nitrogen into the lamps brought the factories 
an entirely new factor and now before the consumers have 
more than commenced to feel the effects of nitrogen-tungs- 
ten lamps, the manufacture of argon and its introduction 
into the lamp becomes a reality. If the research labora- 
tories which discovered the means of bringing about these 
changes with their corresponding economies, could tax the 
consuming public a cent for every dollar thus saved to the 
public, the laboratories would receive over $1,000,000 a 
year to spend on further research.” 
After all, as we see, the people are the ones most in- 
terested in research work and usually they don’t know it. 
On account of the great impetus given industrial re- 
search due to the supreme success of some of its laborator- 
ies, the large coporations are scouring the country for the 
best men in the Universities. The salaries are much higher 
than those usually given the University and College pro- 
fessors, and the equipment is fast becoming superior to 
that of the University laboratory. Therefore, unless there 
is a reaction on the part of the University, it will lose 
most of its best men, especially of the younger class. 
However, I believe this will force the University Pro- 
fessor’s salary up to its desired place, alongside of other 
professions requiring equal training and ability. On the 
whole, the outlook is very optimistic. There is an awaken- 
ing in science. And just as sure as the government and 
big businesses continue to increase in their efforts to foster 
it, this nation will enter an era of industrial prosperity 
that it has never known before. 
