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IN his presidential address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers delivered on October 24, Mr. J. R. Beard reminded his audience that exactly twenty years ago, when chairman of the North-Eastern Centre of the Institution, he read a paper on “Post-war Conditions and Developments, with particular reference to the Electric Supply Industry”. On re-reading it to-day, he found that purely technical achievement has fulfilled, and in many cases exceeded, the expectations then expressed. Where we have largely failed is in having no clear idea of the purpose for which these technical achievements should be used, and also in lacking ability to arrange that co-operation with non-technical people and interests which is necessary if the engineer is to produce the structure that he knows to be most efficient and useful to the community.
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Planning the Post-War World. Nature 146, 692–693 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146692a0
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