Abstract
THE second edition of this book represents a considerable advance on the first. The extraneous and redundant material has been largely eliminated, and a readable and adequate survey of progress in industrial research in Britain during 1946–47 by Dr. B. J. A. Bard replaces the hotch-potch of essays included in the first edition. The statements from Government and public bodies and from private organisations are properly classified, as is the information on university laboratories and the research laboratories of private firms. The sections on officially appointed committees and reports and on books, periodicals and films have also been improved, and the latter list, limited to books published in 1946 or in preparation in 1947, is much more useful than the earlier list. The report from the Industrial Research Committee of the Federation of British Industries on industrial research in technical colleges is given in full, and there are brief summaries of some of the reports from the Working Parties of the Board of Trade in so far as they touch research.
Industrial Research, 1947
Advisory Editor: Dr. Percy Dunsheath. Pp. 535. (London and New York: Todd Reference Books, Ltd., 1947.) 25s. net.
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BRIGHTMAN, R. Industrial Research, 1947. Nature 161, 705–706 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161705d0
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