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MUCH attention has been devoted in the Press recently to the strong position of the German metallurgical industries, both before the war, and now after a year and three-quarters of stress. It is not too much to say that apart from this metallurgical industrial foundation, the war would have ended in three months. The growth of modern German metallurgy is due largely to two causes, and these are closely connected in origin and result. They are trade combinations, such as are represented by the “Stahlwerksverband,” and scientific management and control. As we have said, these are closely associated, for apart from large undertakings, with regular output, there can be no large laboratories, with highly trained and reasonably remunerated scientific staffs. On the other hand, apart from scientific direction the success of large combinations, such as Krupp's, would be impossible. The tendency of the war appears to have been in the direction of unifying and standardising many of our metallurgical industries, and this tendency is likely to continue when peace is proclaimed.
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T., T. German Metallurgy and British Methods . Nature 97, 224 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097224a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/097224a0