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FORTY years ago a small group of enthusiastic electrical engineers, imbued with foresight and courage and full of professional pride, formed the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. A few days hence — on Monday evening, February 4 — in the City of Brotherly Love hallowed by Benjamin Franklin and other revered founders of the nation, the Institute will celebrate its fortieth birthday. These pioneers of 1884 created wisely and built well — in fact, better than they then could realize. Happily, many of them are still living to marvel at the great professional organization which stands as a monument to their work and which wields a worldwide influence for good. It has kept unsullied the splendid ideals of that early day, which were implied in the objects so felicitously enunciated — “The advancement of the theory and practise of electrical engineering and of the allied arts and sciences, and the maintenance of a high professional standing among its members, and the development of the individual engineer.”