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THE British Scientific Instrument Research Association is one of the earliest research associations formed under the scheme of the Committee of Privy Council for the promotion of scientific and industrial research. It was founded, as is stated in the third annual report of that Committee, “through the efforts of the optical industry, guided by the whole-hearted energy and zeal of Mr. Conrad Beck, the president of the British Optical Instrument Manufacturers' Association.” The association was incorporated on May 30, 1918, and established on lines broad enough to include all scientific instrument makers. In November, 1918, a group of firms representative of the electrical scientific instrument, electromedical, and X-ray industries joined the association, which may now claim to be what the above-named report of the Committee of Privy Council stated in August, 1918, it had every prospect of becoming—the representative industrial body dealing with the application of science to the manufacture of scientific instruments. The association was fortunate in securing from the outset as its director of research Sir Herbert Jackson, K.B.E., formerly Daniell professor of chemistry at King's College. Mr. J. W. Williamson was appointed secretary of the association, and, later, Mr. H. Moore assistant director of research, with special reference to the electrical and X-ray researches of the association.
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WILLIAMSON, J. Industrial Research Associations: I—British Scientific Instrument Research Association. Nature 106, 346–348 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106346a0
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