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THE textile industry of this country shows a gross value amounting to the considerable total of 333,000,000l.; materials to the value of 235,000,000l. were used in their manufacture; and 1,253,000 persons were employed in their manipulation. The power used amounted to 1,987,000 h.p., and 77 per cent. of the firms engaged in their work made a return that they had used during the same period 8,137,000l. worth of coal. These figures indicate that there must be under modern conditions an ever-increasing call for research chemists in this industry. If the standard that one chemist is required for every 2000 persons employed in the textile industry were set up, there would be room for no fewer than 620 highly trained chemists, who would each be dealing with an “average gross output” of the value of more than 500,000l. per annum.
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The Research Chemist and the Textile Industry 2 . Nature 93, 71–75 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093071b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/093071b0