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INTENDED to commemorate the fiftieth anniver sary of the Societe Franfaise de Physique, the “Exposition de Physique et de T.S.F.” was held in the Grand Palais, Paris, on November so-December 24. The title chosen for the Exhibition was perhaps a little too modest, a large part of the Exhibition being, in fact, devoted to industries, in the development of which applied physics has played an important role. In addition to the purely commercial exhibits, a well-organised experimental physics section enabled the visitor to become acquainted with some of the problems to which research is now directed. Every afternoon demonstrations were given by eminent physicists and a number of college graduates. Amongst a very large number of exhibits, spread over the entire floor and galleries of the Grand Palais, the following may be mentioned:
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The French Physical Society's Exhibition. Nature 113, 31–32 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113031a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113031a0