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WE have received a summary of the annual report for 1936 of the World Power Conference, prepared by the Central Office, 36 Kingsway, London, W.C.2. The chairman is Sir Harold Hartley (Britain) and the vice-chairmen are O. C. Merrill (United States), G. T. T. Bakker (Netherlands) and M. Kamo (Japan). The plenary conference was held in Washington on September 7-12, 1936, and was attended by about 3,000 members from fifty-four countries. Year book No. 1 was published in October 1936, and it is hoped that No. 2 will be published in September next. Statistics on manufactured gas and coke will be added in this and subsequent year books. The work of the international sub-commission on special cements is going steadily forward, and work on an international technical dictionary in connexion with dams will soon be begun. The International Executive Council has unanimously accepted the invitation of the German National Committee for the second chemical engineering congress to be held in Berlin in 1940. There is little doubt that the fourth World Power Conference will take place in 1942, thus preserving the interval of six years between successive plenary meetings.
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The World Power Conference. Nature 139, 1050 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391050b0
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