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Transactions of the World Power Conference, Sectional Meeting, Scandinavia, 1933

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THE management of an international conference nowadays has become no mean task. But since “practice makes perfect”, those re sponsible for the World Power Conference, the first of which was held in London in 1924 in consnexion with the British Empire Exhibition, have built up an organisation which has become a model of its kind and affords a first-rate example of what scientific management really can achieve.

Transactions of the World Power Conference, Sectional Meeting, Scandinavia, 1933.

Vol. 1. Pp. 763. Vol. 2: Electrical Energy. Pp. 702. Vol. 3: Gas, Solid and Liquid Fuels. Pp. 336. Vol. 4: Power and Heat Combinations, Steam Heat Consuming Industries. Pp. 615. Vol. 5: Iron and Steel Industry, Electrical Heating, Transmission and Adaptation of Motive Power for Industrial Machinery. Pp. 692. Vol. 6: Railways, Urban and Suburban Traffic. Pp. 781. Vol. 7: Marine Transport. Pp. 294. (Stockholm: Svenska Nationalkommitten for Värld-kraftkonferensen, 1934.)

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A., E. Transactions of the World Power Conference, Sectional Meeting, Scandinavia, 1933. Nature 134, 645–646 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134645a0

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