Abstract :
THE SUBJECT for discussion this evening is important and timely, and should be of vital interest to every engineer. It is well for us to pause a few moments from our daily task and make a brief survey of the engineer´s work, to consider its important influence upon the life of this busy world, and especially to enquire what new service awaits the engineer now and in the immediate future. During this discussion we do not propose to limit our definition of “engineer” to one educated in or following the strictly technical profession of civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, but shall include in addition all educated men laboring in the broad fields of chemistry, physics, medicine and other organized scientific activities.
