Abstract
A SHORT time ago the Technical Education Board of the London County Council appointed a subcommittee to report upon the “application of science to industry.” The witnesses called before the committee were leaders of science and employers in various branches of industry. Dealing first with the loss of industries to the country, during the last twenty or thirty years, the committee points out that all the witnesses were practically agreed in considering the loss sustained to be due to deficiencies of our educational system. It is not so much the training of the workmen which is at fault; they even consider that the opportunities open to the London workman for obtaining technical education are superior to those enjoyed by workmen abroad. It is the want of highly trained men of science who are able to undertake research work. Prof. Dewar says he knows of no firm in England where chemists are employed in research work, while in Germany a large firm will employ a number of men for research only, who will have no connection with the business or managerial part of the works.
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