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WITHIN one generation we have seen the small mechanics' institute in a provincial city develop into an institution of university standing, constituting a technological faculty giving degrees, with some of its professors sitting on the university senate. In one way or another London, Birmingham, Bristol, all the large cities, show the same change. It means that within this period an enormous change has taken place in the character and requirements of our industries, and consequently in the demand for highly trained. young men. The industrial world has changed. The|, present characteristic of industry is the tendency towards large units, using as one of their weapons an intelligence department (a research department), equipped with every resource of science. This is in itself nearly as far removed from the Victorian system of industry as that was from its predecessor, and it is causing nearly as great a social change as the industrial revolution that followed on the introduction of machinery.
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LEVINSTEIN, H. The Dyestuffs Industry in Relation to Research and Higher Education. Nature 111, 445–447 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111445a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111445a0