Mellon Institute of Industrial Research

Abstract

“PVR. E. R. WEIDLEIN, the director of the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, has published his twenty-third Report to the trustees. The Institute, established in 1913, was the material outcome of Prof. Robert Kennedy Duncan's system of industrial fellowships started in the University of Pittsburgh two years before. Since 1911, there have been 1,085 industrial fellowships on 268 technological subjects, and more than 500 new or improved processes and products have resulted, recorded in nearly 2,000 contributions to scientific literature. The Report claims with truth that the 363 fellows and 414 assistants who, having completed their fellowships, have entered the fields of manufacture, commerce and education constitute a most valuable gift. To celebrate the silver jubilee, a new building is under construction.