R. W. King

“ Just as applied electricity is a leading exemplar of the benefits to be obtained by an intelligent use of scientific knowledge, so electrical communication of intelligence is a leading exemplar in the field of applied electricity. This branch of applied electricity is a pioneer among those recognizing the practical value of scientific research. ”

“ Out of this work, and in time, have grown entirely new industries. From the fact that these industries sprang directly from the research laboratory, it was inevitable that they should be conspicuous because of the number of their men trained in the methods of scientific research. Equally inevitable was it that these new fields of endeavor, originating as they did and being staffed as they were, should be the ground where industrial research would find its first and largest development. ”

“ The results up to the present indicate clearly that the electrical and chemical fields in industry as we know them today, are the places where the greatest advances have been made in the utilization of research methods and research men. Other, older and more basic industries are rapidly following the general path marked out by the successes already obtained in these fields. ”

“ Upwards of one hundred years ago there was adopted in earnest by scientific men, principally in university laboratories, the program of searching deeper into the unknown, to discover new principles and new relationships of a king which had at the time very little apparent practical interest to mankind as a whole. ”

“ With this intense and growing interest in the proper application of scientific methods to the solution of the problems of electrical communication, it is natural that a widespread desire should have arisen for a technical journal to collect, print or reprint, and make readily available the more important articles relating to the field of the communication engineer. ”

“ Hence, while well equipped physical and chemical laboratories are still a necessary part of the communication engineer's equipment, he is equally active in pushing his investigations in many other directions. Questions involved in the making of proper rate schedules and adequate fundamental plans for new construction are originating profound researches in such fields as political science, psychology and mathematics. ”