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THE General Electric Company, Ltd., is now a very large organisation, which employs some twenty thousand workers. It has engineering works at Birmingham, where it manufactures all kinds of electrical machines. At Stoke, near Coventry, telephones are manufactured. At the Osram lamp works at Hammersmith, lamps and valves of all kinds are made. At Erith, the company took over a few years ago the works of Messrs. Fraser and Chalmers, which manufacture steam turbines and mining plant. At Southampton, electric cables of all kinds are manufactured, and the company has glass works at Lemington-on-Tyne. Mainly on the initiative of Mr. Hugo Hirst, the managing director, it was decided some six years ago to establish a central laboratory to carry out the scientific and industrial researches which are essential for the progress of industry. Mr. Clifford Paterson, who was then the head of the electro-technical department of the National Physical Laboratory, was appointed superintendent, and he is now helped by a staff of physicists and engineers many of whom have world-wide reputations.
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Physics in Industry at the Wembley Laboratories. Nature 111, 344–345 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111344a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111344a0