Abstract :
IN response to popular demands growing out of their successful innovation in connection with the 1935 summer convention at Ithaca, N. Y., 6 informal technical conferences were held in connection with the 1936 summer convention in Pasadena, Calif. These conferences were scheduled primarily for the benefit of the younger members of the Institute and the technical specialists in the fields covered by the conference subjects: High voltage X-ray tubes and allied apparatus, carrier current, mechanical properties of electrical conductors, synchronous machines, general transformer problems, and electron tubes in industry. Operated on the basis of no set program, the conferences were open for a general interchange of ideas and for the discussion of any particular problems or other matters of special interest to those attending.
