TEMPERATURE CONTROL IN INDUSTRIES. 
We are just on the threshold of tremendous developments in the 
automatic control of temperature in thousands of processes. Without 
doubt, we will see an extensive use of automatic control in the next 
few years, and this will mean the elimination of one of the most difficult 
problems in many manufacturing plants. With a continuous effort in 
this country for greater efficiency and uniformity, one realizes the 
stumbling block present where there is hand-control of temperature by 
an employee, who may or may not control the temperature properly, 
just as he desires. In automatic temperature control, we have one more 
step forward in increasing efficiency and uniformity in American manu- 
facturing processes. 
The important requisites for industrial research are often 
unconsidered by manufacturers, who, in endeavouring to select a 
research chemist, are likely to regard every chemist as a qualified 
scientific scout. The supply of men capable of working at high 
efficiency as investigators is well below the demand; and chemists 
having the requisites and spirit of the researcher are indeed 
difficult to find by ones experienced in the direction of research. 
All research professors know that the finding of a skilled private 
assistant—one who possesses not only originality, but also sound 
judgment and intellectual honesty—is not easy, because it frequently 
involves the gift of prophecy on the part of the searcher. It has 
been truly said that the ‘‘seeds of great discoveries are constantly 
floating around us, but they only take root in minds well 
prepared to receive them.” 
—RAYMOND F. BACON. 
“The Administrator of Industrial Research Laboratories.” 
€.11276.—5 433° 
