Abstract :
Looking toward worldwide work along standardization lines, the American Engineering Standards Committee elicit cooperation with all interests, both here and abroad. The importance of the work of standardization is becoming more and more pronounced; already 70 standards have been approved by the A. E. S. C. and 100 others are under way. In the mining world, the pioneer work was done by the U. S. Bureau of Mines and then the American Mining Congress. The work of the National Screw Threads Commission in the mechanical field, has also been of great importance. And Standardization carries heavily into public safety questions such as the unification of colors in traffic signals, etc. Secretary Hoover contends that in the general problem the number of fatalities is one third, and those wounded, one and one half times the corresponding American losses in the World War which is certainly a fact in emphasis of the importance of standard safety measures. A program of 4.0 industrial safety codes, most of which are applicable to factories is underway; Thirteen have been completed and the remainder are well advanced. This includes lighting and other work done in schools. Standardization activities in foreign industrial countries continue to increase, among the newest national organizations are those in Czechoslovakia and Japan. In all, there are nineteen national standardizing bodies, as follows: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. The vital importance of the work cannot be overestimated.
