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THE recognition is universal that a systematic investigation of Nature and a practical application of the resultant knowledge have placed new tools and new weapons of great potency in man's hands. The importance of science in shaping the daily course of events has been made known to all, partly through the literature of technology, but chiefly by the instrumentalities themselves and their omnipresence in our daily lives.
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JEWETT, F., KING, R. Engineering Progress and the Social Order*. Nature 146, 824–828 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146824a0
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