Abstract
THE twenty-first annual report (Ref. E.R.A./T320) of the British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association summarizes the work which has been carried out during the year ended September 30, 1941, and lists by titles the various research reports which have been issued during the period. The work is reviewed in seventeen major classifications among which are the highly important ones of dielectrics, cables and overhead lines, electric control apparatus, steam-power plant and condensers, magnetic materials, transformers, surge phenomena and rural electrification. Emphasis is laid upon the work which is still being carried out on circuit making and breaking, surge phenomena, and the properties of insulation, and attention is directed to the consideration now being given, for example, to the storage of electrical energy, the mechanical strength of transformer windings, and the quality improvement of electrical sheet steel. Practical circuit breaker design has been influenced considerably by the Association's investigations. In the insulating materials field, special account is being taken of the latest developments in plastics.
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British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association. Nature 149, 215–216 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149215c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149215c0