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... Technical Research , U. S. A. , Assistant Professor The George Washington University , Washington , D. C. SIX FULL PAGE PHOTOGRAVURE PORTRAITS AND FRONTISPIECE NEW YORK D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY 25 PARK PLACE HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT ...
... Technical Research , U. S. A. , Assistant Professor The George Washington University , Washington , D. C. SIX FULL PAGE PHOTOGRAVURE PORTRAITS AND FRONTISPIECE NEW YORK D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY 25 PARK PLACE HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT ...
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... . It is true that with the help of trained technical men we will get better engines , better explosives , better guns ; and for these we should be truly grateful to our much - boasted American genius . But , PREFACE vii.
... . It is true that with the help of trained technical men we will get better engines , better explosives , better guns ; and for these we should be truly grateful to our much - boasted American genius . But , PREFACE vii.
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... technical staffs of the French , British and Italian High Commis- sions , and I shall quote freely from the writ- ings of distinguished scientists and scholars where they treat of the subjects under dis- cussion . It is hoped by this ...
... technical staffs of the French , British and Italian High Commis- sions , and I shall quote freely from the writ- ings of distinguished scientists and scholars where they treat of the subjects under dis- cussion . It is hoped by this ...
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... technical magazines , as well as the elaborately illustrated instruction sheets sold by the several correspondence schools . Ulti- mately , in America , I am very sure with the more thorough education of the children that drift into the ...
... technical magazines , as well as the elaborately illustrated instruction sheets sold by the several correspondence schools . Ulti- mately , in America , I am very sure with the more thorough education of the children that drift into the ...
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... . While German factories were regarding such men as their principal assets , and were not afraid to coöperate by an orderly exchange of technical information , we and our English cousins ran our 46 RESEARCH AND INVENTION.
... . While German factories were regarding such men as their principal assets , and were not afraid to coöperate by an orderly exchange of technical information , we and our English cousins ran our 46 RESEARCH AND INVENTION.
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Page 170 - any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in this country before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 70 - To gather and collate scientific and technical information at home and abroad, in cooperation with Governmental and other agencies and to render such information available to duly accredited persons.
Page 60 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 69 - The National Research Council was organized in 1916 at the request of the President by the National Academy of Sciences, under its congressional charter, as a measure of national preparedness. The work accomplished by the Council in organizing research and in securing cooperation of military and civilian agencies in the solution of military problems demonstrates its capacity for larger service.
Page 16 - should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself. He should not be biased by appearances ; have no favourite hypothesis ; be of no school ; and in doctrine have no master. He should not be a respecter of persons, but of things. Truth should be his primary object. If to these qualities be added industry, he may indeed hope to walk within the veil of the temple of nature.
Page 155 - Persons employed, as much as employers, are entitled to their own independent inventions, but where the employer has conceived the plan of an invention and is engaged in experiments to perfect it, no suggestions from an employee, not amounting to a new method or arrangement which in itself is a complete invention, is sufficient to deprive the employer of the exclusive property in the perfected...
Page 60 - Massachusetts; JD Whitney, California; their associates and successors duly chosen, are hereby incorporated, constituted, and declared to be a body corporate, by the name of the National Academy of Sciences.
Page 158 - But a manufacturing corporation which has employed a skilled workman, for a stated compensation, to take charge of its works, and to devote his time and services to devising and making improvements in articles there manufactured, is not entitled to a conveyance of patents obtained for inventions made by him while so employed, in the absence of express agreement to that effect.
Page 158 - ... where a person has discovered an improved principle in a machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, and employs other persons to assist him in carrying out that principle, and they, in the course of experiments arising from that employment, make valuable discoveries ancillary to the plan and preconceived design of the employer, such suggested improvements are generally to be regarded as the property of the party who discovered the original improved principle, and may be embodied in his patent...
Page 67 - Department of Science and Research of the Council of National Defense...